“The Lorraine pâté is a monument”

You co-present The best regional cuisine, it’s at home! on M6. Make our mouths water…

Chef Norbert Tarayre and I are going to meet those who feed others: restaurateurs. By putting them in competition two by two, before a final of four, we listened to them talk about their specialties and the way in which they bring them to life.

What appeals to you about this game?

My exchanges with Norbert, who has a visceral love for people. I also like learning the history of local specialties that men, during their travels, brought from one corner of France to another.

What specialties do you work in your restaurants, La Table and Le Roc?

To my customers, I offer dishes of Breton, Lorraine and Haute-Savoyard origins. The Lorraine pâté is, in my eyes, a monument. At Roc, we have one à la carte. It’s a tribute to my father.

A quality that you would be proud to pass on?

My artistic brilliance, which I get from my mother and my grandmothers, and my sensitivity, which comes from my dyslexia. She pushed me to think differently.

An artist who has touched you recently?

Valérie Hadida and her bronze sculptures. The gaze of his female figures is of infinite depth.

You have three days, a backpack and no car. Where are you going?

In the mountains, which imposes a form of pilgrimage tinged with philosophy; because mountain hiking is the only practice I know where, once at the top, you have only gone half the way, since you still have to go back down.

Pope Francis invites himself to your table. What are you cooking for him?

Scrambled eggs with truffles. The first represent life, the second, sometimes nicknamed “black potato”, connects us to the earth.

We offer you an hour of silence. What do you do with it?

I settle into “my room”. I collected memories there: my godfather’s lamp, a record player, childhood photos, skis, stuffed animals, etc. I need to lock myself in to face the world. Luckily, my wife and my children understood this and gave me these moments.

For you, Jesus, it is…

A guide. He shows me the way to be of service to others and to do my best.