The real life of chefs

This Thursday, February 27, Cyril Lignac, 42, will release his first autobiography, Stories of Tastes , by Robert Laffont editions. Although he is reluctant to qualify it as such, it is not yet another beautiful cookbook that he presents to the reader, but rather a life story. No tempting picture in the summary, just seven short bonus recipes having "marked [his] life" . Like the Aveyron chef, many cooks and pastry chefs have taken up the feather in recent months to testify: Philippe Conticini, Thierry Marx, Angelo Musa. Has the edition smelled a new vein?

The chiefs are sentient beings, stuffed with faults and neuroses. Delivering all or part of their intimate life allows them to understand their cuisine, which makes them vibrate

If it seems to be accelerating lately, the trend is not new. At the Librairie Gourmande (Paris 2e), a reference in works on gastronomy and oenology, the biographies of chefs occupy a small section upstairs. “The phenomenon is not recent, explains Déborah Dupont-Daguet, owner of the brand since 2006, but we have never had so many at the same time! However, up to

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