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Abraham Lincoln once said: “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”  I always feel for the children of famous people growing up in the shadow of their parents.  This problem is particularly acute when those children are brave (or foolhardy!) enough to venture into the same field in which their parents are famous. They are quite literally living in the reputational shadow of what we think of their parents. And it is only by proving their own character that they get to step out of those long shadows and start being regarded as the tree – “the real thing”.  And Emily Roux is one acorn from a famous culinary family whom I feel is destined to become a mighty tree, judging by her and her husband’s recently opened restaurant Caractère in Notting Hill. Click here for a full portion