The cook Perla Servan-Schreiber, was the guest of Laurent Mariotte in the program "La Table des bons vivants".

Between laughter and emotion, the author returned to her mother's undeniable talent for cooking, the one who communicated to her the love of good food. 

INTERVIEW

Best-selling cookbook author Perla Servan-Schreiber has an undeniable love for gastronomy.

The generous cuisine that you share around a large table with your loved ones.

To enjoy the moment and the people you love.

Moreover,

Enjoy

("profit" in English is the name of his latest book) published by Flammarion.

A culinary passion that has governed her life and that she owes to her mother as well as to her childhood in Morocco, as she explains to Laurent Mariotte in the program

La Table des bons vivant

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>> Find La Table des bons vivant in podcast and in replay here 

Exist through the kitchen

“My mother had a tremendous talent for cooking,” says Perla Servan-Schreiber proudly.

"She is from that generation where women were barely educated and of course, without freedom. My mother was not financially independent. And so, to be recognized as a person, she developed a talent in cooking and baking ... C 'This is what gave him exceptional fame. Everyone was really fighting to come and have a meal with us. "

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"The taste in the hands" 

A crazy talent that allowed him to write a book at the age of 85.

"Nothing was written down. The recipes, she had them in her head. It's called having the taste in your hands. So, the idea came to me when my father died. 'was found alone when she had been married since the age of 14 and I was like' if I don't give her a project, we're not going to make it. '

I asked him to weigh everything and write everything down to have a trace and to occupy it. "

A book like a torch for his daughter who also inherited the "intelligent hand", as they say in the profession.