With the aim of promoting "French cuisine"

The "Elysee Chef" leaves his duties to become the president's "personal representative"

The French chef: "I will continue to serve the country differently."

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Guillaume Gómez, the chef of the French presidential palace for a quarter of a century, announced (Wednesday) that he is leaving his duties to assume the position of "personal representative" of President Emmanuel Macron, to promote "French cuisine."

The well-known French chef said in a message on his Twitter account that he made this decision after "careful thought", with the aim of "continuing to serve the country in a different way."

Gomez was the chief chef at the Elysee since 2013 after he was an assistant in the kitchen inside the presidential palace, during the reigns of Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Holland, all the way to Emmanuel Macron.

He said, "He has spent 25 years raising the banner of French excellence with its traditions and art of life to the highest ranks."

As of the first of March, Gomez assumed his duties "as the personal representative of the President of the Republic to the parties and networks operating in the culinary and food sector, with the aim of promoting the arts of French cuisine."

He was assigned this new mission after obtaining "approval and confidence" from Macron, as part of the decision to make 2021 "the year of French cuisine". Gomez will follow in his new duties for the French Foreign Ministry.

Guillaume Gómez’s assistant will now assume his duties, pending the appointment of a new chef in the Elysee, according to the French presidency.

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