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At the table with the heads of state

2020-12-05T23:38:41.287Z


STORY - Guillaume Gomez, chef of the Elysée's kitchens, has published a book of recipes and anecdotes on the dishes served to the most famous guests of French presidents.


Three presidents to sign a preface, nothing less!

Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron played the game of introducing

At the table of presidents

, which Guillaume Gomez has just published in Recherches Midi.

What reaffirm - if there is any doubt - the essential role of meals in official visits.

"All the classics must be masterfully played there, declined, reinvented, sublimated, to give emissaries from all over the world a taste for France,"

writes the current head of state.

These meals are moments of sharing, exchange of conviviality. ”

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A “gastrodiplomacy” that Guillaume Gomez, who arrived in the kitchens of the presidency for his military service twenty-three years ago and number one since 2013, highlights in a work born from an important collection of menus which he made donation to the gastronomic fund of the National Library of France in Dijon.

"I kept the menus that were given to me on my arrival, thinking that I would not stay

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Source: lefigaro

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