The cooks who frequent the kitchens of
“Top Chef”
often take a ticket to the stars.
Twenty-seven former candidates have one or even two Michelin stars.
This is the case of Stéphanie Le Quellec, double starred for her table at 32, avenue Matignon, La Scène (Paris 8th).
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Winner of the second season of the competition in 2011, she re-entered the competition this year, but on the jury, alongside Hélène Darroze, Philippe Etchebest, Paul Pairet, Glenn Viel and another newcomer, chef Dominique Crenn.
At 42, Stéphanie Le Quellec says she is proud to pass the baton to another generation of cooks.
Future stars of the culinary arts?
This is the rather unfair trial made in “Cmedia” in the M6 competition.
“Top Chef” would have become, for the chroniclers of this show, presented by Mélanie Taravant, on France 5, a “The Voice” of cordon bleus, a “Star Academy” of master chefs.
Could this desire for fame harm a certain creativity?
Candidate for season 11, Justine Piluso deplores in this regard that certain participants now register mainly to
“be on TV
”.
According to him, the program would lose spontaneity.
Could this desire for fame harm a certain creativity?
Certainly not, replies Laurent Mariotte, for whom the M6 show
“brought the profession of cook back into the spotlight”
.
And remember that “Top Chef” allows, unlike its program, “Little dishes in balance” (TF1), to highlight
“sophisticated cuisine”
.
To close this somewhat stale debate, we will argue that the show no longer has to prove itself and above all that it does not seem crazy, when we want to magnify French gastronomy, to seek excellence...