He has become an essential face when it comes to cooking on French television.
Since 2005 with the program “Oui, chef!”
broadcast on M6, Cyril Lignac makes viewers salivate.
"Initially, I didn't want to do TV, I trembled as soon as I saw a camera"
he reveals to Frédéric Lopez, astonished.
This Sunday, May 7, the host of “A Sunday in the companion” receives the cook, as well as Daniel Auteuil and Aure Atika on his show.
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Cyril Lignac finally lets himself be convinced and sets up his first restaurant under the eye of the cameras.
Small, he is
“not good at school”
as he confides in the attic, a room well known to regulars on the France 2 program.
“When I started to find my way, I dreamed of coming to Paris to become a great chef,"
he continues.
He began his training at the Saint-Joseph hotel school in Villefranche-de-Rouergue before joining chef Alain Passard's brigade, then Pierre Hermé's pastry shop and finally collaborating with Alain Ducasse.
"They were counting on me in the kitchen and I said to myself,
'I have a real role'
"
analyzes Cyril Lignac today.
Then the adventure with M6 begins.
“I had to repeat my text 40 times”
remembers the one who today appeared in “Top Chef”, “Le Meilleur Pâtissier” or even “Tous en cuisine”, a program launched during confinement.
An unusual career path
"I was known before being recognized by the profession"
remembers the chef before adding
"it was complicated especially when you are 25, you are a kid"
.
Indeed, his career path is unusual.
He gained notoriety even before being judged by culinary journalists or the Michelin guide:
"Some chefs accompanied me and others did not, so I had to do a little bit of leatherwork"
.
In 2012, however, he obtained his first star for his restaurant Le Quinzieme.
This same establishment filmed in “Oui, Chef!”
a few years earlier.
In 2019, he was awarded the decoration of Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit.
The award of which he is most proud to date,
"it's worth all the medals in the world"
he declares to Frédéric Lopez.
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