At last !
Davy Tissot, Bocuse d'Or 2021, can breathe, laugh with joy, hug his clerks.
After a rustling finale of chants and flags waved on the public side, extreme concentration and precise gestures on the kitchen side, the audience in the hall where the events were held sang a vibrant “Marseillaise” to celebrate the winner of the biggest culinary competition in the world. .
Finally, because the last French to have won the supreme award was Thibaut Ruggeri in 2013. The Scandinavians who took their habits on the podium in recent years have not fallen so far, since Denmark finished silver medal and Norway, bronze medal.
The best on-board recipe went to Iceland, the best takeaway to Sweden, the societal engagement award to Colombia.
As for the best clerk, he is Swiss and is called Manuel Hofer.
The future of Bocuse d'Or is up to the clerks
Winning the biggest culinary competition in the world puts the spotlight on your chef.
However, Davy Tissot, who grew up in Les Minguettes, does not forget that his victory is that of a collective: “The Bocuse d'Or is a competition which brings together a team, coaches, partners, supporters around 'a common goal,' he said ahead of the final.
Enough to galvanize the younger generations, on whom the hope of haute cuisine rests: “Transmission is essential.
I was lucky enough to be given a know-how and a know-how.
Today, my wish would be that my clerks, all these young people around me, one day take my place.
It would be my greatest victory.
In the meantime, he can savor his own.
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