(ANSA) - ROME, 18 JAN - The presentation of the Michelin France guide has started on Youtube and Facebook which, from a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower, photographs a new image of haute cuisine across the Alps with a prevalence of young people, women, and chefs originating from overseas territories on the podium.
A digital edition because of the pandemic, which replaced the one in attendance initially scheduled in Cognac, in the South West of France.
54 restaurants have won the first Micheline star, including the Italian Antonio Salvatore Rampoldi in Monaco. AlexandreMazzia from Marseilles to win three Michelin stars. A wave of news that is added to the restaurants that have obtained the green star which, as happened for the Italian edition, rewards ecological awareness in the kitchen. In thanking the guide inspectors who did their utmost to complete the monitoring despite the pandemic and the closures imposed on many places, the international director of Michelin guides Gwendal Poullenec underlined the "revolution underway in the French sommelier, increasingly attentive to biodynamic production and small wine producers and in general to the new generations who are dedicating themselves to viticulture. Furthermore, last year the guide awarded the most forward-looking and environmentally friendly astronomy but from this year, with green stars, we reward those - and they are many - who have moved on to action and demonstrates a concrete ecological awareness. In general this edition proves to be a careful guide to the dynamism of the new generations. The MichelinFrance 2021 guide rewards diversity and new energies. With the two new two Michelin stars we have also rewarded the cuisine of emotions. Marsan di Helene Darroze in Paris and Merise in Laubach ". Two young women awarded for the dining room and reception: Marion Denieul (Maison Tiegezh in Guer) and DelphineAlemany (La Closerie, in Ansouis). Mory Sacko and Coline Faulquiersare the two young chefs of the year 2121, Mory has also obtained her first Michelin star, thus receiving two awards. (HANDLE).