Guest of "La Table des bons vivants", Saturday on Europe 1, the emergency doctor came back to his worst memory in the kitchen: that of a fondue that turned sour after the mistake of an apprentice cheese maker.
INTERVIEW
What could be better than a simple, convivial and comforting dish to receive your friends in winter?
This is what Patrick Pelloux said to himself about two years ago.
But his Savoyard fondue project, prepared for the actors Josiane Balasko and Frédéric Bouraly, turned sour due to the mistake of an apprentice cheese maker.
An anecdote told with humor by the main interested party, Saturday
in La Table des bons vivant
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A Savoyard fondue with dried vegetables
To prepare the Savoyard fondue, which he serves with pulses to avoid "the sponge side of the bread" and to be able to "eat a lot more", Patrick Pelloux went to one of his favorite traders, like d ' habit.
"I have a cheese maker called Philippe, who is remarkable," he smiles.
"The cheese maker from Saint-Vrain, at President Wilson's market", to be precise.
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But that day Philippe was absent.
“He had a young apprentice who was there,” says Patrick Pelloux.
"Me, I always trust, so I say, 'I take fondue for eight'. And the guy is wrong, actually. He gave me raclette cheese."
"The most missed dinner"
Not realizing the mistake, the doctor cooked this cheese normally, to obtain a fondue… "appalling".
"There were lumps, and everything was the most messed up dinner."
Two years later, his two guests still talk to him about it at each of their meetings.
But Patrick Pelloux has won a funny story for future dinner, and "does not want anyone," he says.