Philippe Jeanty and his homonym Philippe Jeanty
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We share about 13,800 results in Google (in the illustration I forgot to use quote marks!)
and our internet lives have been entangled for ever :)
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... even in our images...
The story began many years ago. I went to a meeting in San Diego, and the hotel reception asked me why I had two room reservations. This was long before Internet and I assumed a duplication from the travel agency (remember those ?) and my secretary. I cancel the second room. As I arrived in my room, the phone message light is blinking. I do not understand any of the messages and delete them all, then go down to register to the meeting. “Hi I am Philippe Jeanty from Vanderbilt”. “Oh we have you from Moet & Chandon”. After a few more misunderstandings I realized there must be another Philippe Jeanty. I called him and we met in the lobby. We have intermittently communicated and maintained a friendship ever since.
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Dinner with the kids at his restaurant.
Danton, Cerine, Emma, Cedric, (Thao taking the picture), PJ
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Cerine had some patient who, seeing her name tag in the elevators at UCSF told her: "I love your dad's restaurant!". "Oh no ! My dad is the other one !"
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I receive a dedicated copy of his menu and gave him some DVDs !
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When I made the reservation, I of course, made them under the name "Philippe Jeanty". When we showed up she said: "I though this was a joke !"
Best dinner I had, even if i did not made it !
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Another dinner 5 years later
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