PARIS, April 25 — French chef Alain Ducasse pleaded with President Emmanuel Macron to allow a gradual reopening of the country’s restaurants yesterday, with the birthplace of haute cuisine badly burned by the coronavirus lockdown. With some of the greatest cooks in the world reduced to setting...
French chef Jean Sulpice poses near his restaurant ‘L'Auberge du Pere Bise’ in Talloires in the French Alps. — AFP pic
Almost all the one million people who work in France’s hospitality industry have been left idle by its strict lockdown, with cafes and restaurants set to remain closed after the first restrictions are relaxed from May 11.While he made the case to Macron for the cultural and economic necessity of France being able to eat out again, meals from his fashionable Paris establishments were being delivered by bicycle to clients who have been starved of gastronomic delights for five weeks.
“When we do reopen — and we still do not know when that will be — my professional life will not be the same,” the young cook admitted. While his ideas are working for now — he had 700 takeaway orders within the first four days — Nasti worries for the future of fine dining. Gault & Millau’s chef of the year for 2019 wraps his own dishes like rillettes of dentex fish and curry and buckwheat tiramisu into packages containing the ingredients and recipes to recreate his creations at home.
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