Gourmet Portrait

Appears in
My Best: Paul Bocuse
My Best: Paul Bocuse

By Paul Bocuse

Published 2016

  • About
1/WHAT ARE THE INGREDIENT AND THE TOOL YOU CAN’T COOK WITHOUT?
Butter and a cast-iron pan.
2/WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DRINK?
A Picon-curaçao, fernand Point’s favorite aperitif.
3/WHAT IS YOUR ESSENTIAL COOK BOOK? Auguste Escoffier’s work Le Guide Culinaire.
4/WHAT IS YOUR SECRET WEAKNESS? All desserts.
5/IF YOU HADN’T BEEN A COOK, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE LIKED TO BE?
A gamekeeper or maybe a hunter.
6/WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? Mechanical organs.
7/WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
“To hope, it’s often necessary to attempt; and through perseverance, to succeed.” –Gilbert Cesbron