Subtitles: Luís Filipe Bernardes
Ready. go
When you accept a mission for a year
Antarctica, it is known that...
Actually, provided cook, like me, when you accept a one-year mission in Antarctica....
you already know it will be hard.
It is known that the conditions of work and life are hard...
Stop, it's not working.
In and out, not giving to fit.
you're off you head, there no point
But John, come back please..
You can not film here. Is rocking too.
We're on a boat. I warned you there in Sydney!
The sea is rough. It is ridiculous!
What did you want, John? It's going to be much easy inside.
John! John
Crozet Archipelago
Hey, you!.
Who is that woman over there?
I thought there were only men on base..
Is the President. The cook. How?
We called so because before coming here to the island...
She was the Chef for the President.
The Élysée Palace in Paris..
Scientific Base Alfred Faure
I present to you the new cook, Loic. Good morning, welcome.
So, Babette?
These are ducks I cevei for three weeks.
You already cevou ducks? No, never.
Grégory explain to him how to CEVAM ducks. Yes, ma'am.
Fill this pot with eggs and truffles
for eggs and absorb the scent of truffles... Yes I know that.
Meanwhile I prepare ducks for dinner tomorrow
You know what the menu of my farewell party?
No, I would like to know.
Garlic broth with cubes of fresh foie gras
Magret with sweet and sour sauce accompanied by potatoes Sarladaise
and Saint-Honoré with cream memee.
Excuse.
Gregory. Yes, ma'am?
In two minutes you can strain the sauce I left aside.
Then mix it with minestrone with parmesan and serve separately.
. .
I'm shooting a documentary for Australian television...
Okay if I shoot a little lady?.
I am very busy preparing dinner tomorrow.
I have no time, I'm very busy.
Someone told me that you were French President's Cook.
His work in the Élysée Palace was very different than it does here in Island Crozet?...
Grégory, I think the masses are ready.
I'm sure is was not the same thing.
You can ask your cameraman to stop filming me?
You can talk to him you know? No, it is not possible. I'm sorry.
it's not possible
So we have to turn around.
All right, turn left after the cross.
Okay.
It is on the road from Terrasson.
So will have to turn left immediately after the cross.
This is what I just told you.
Even spoke it was to turn left? Yes he just arrived.
Even at night. Even at night.
The Mayor asked that the apology. Wanted to come pick her up personally but there was a last-minute problem.
We are at the minute.
There is some discomfort. But we need the immediately receive the station Brive.
At the 8:50 train to Paris. It is essential to have someone there to receive it.
Thank you, Nicole.
His passes, returning at 17:23, arriving at 22:18...
A taxi will be waiting in the station Brive to take her home.
In Austerlitz station a car to take you directly to the Rue de Valois.
Ministry of Culture.
There will meet with the Chief Minister's Office.
Can not Pass... Buster.
He is the senior who needs a cook?
I dunno inform.
Because when Mr. Landreau called me yesterday... Lord what?
Mr. Landreau, the mayor of Union French Haute Cuisine.
Do not know.
He said a high official of state looking for a cook.
No further information had only said that wanted a woman who could cook.
Go for it...
With large breasts, if possible...
There will never give way.
Forgiveness, what say? No, no.
Madame Laborie. Is the man who will take me to the Ministry of Culture?
No. I am. David Azoulay.
No more the Rue de Valois. We'll go straight to 55. Let.
At 55 where?
55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
You know what? No. Should Know?
55 is the Élysée Palace.
Please... excuse.
You can follow me.
Good day. Are waiting for the lady in the next room. Please accompany me.
Good day. Come in, please.
Good day. Here.
Sit down, please.
I know you have the time counted...
In short, the President would be happy if he accepted administer the private kitchen of the Élysée
ie their personal meals with your friends and colleagues.
I am honored, just...
I do not think the person is seeking.
No, no, no...
Is that only do very simple things. Always cooked just to my brother, my mother and grandmother...
This is precisely what the President wants.
He wants for you in a kitchen Élysée mother.
Yes, but do not know if I can,
Head of State... Cabinet, forgiveness.
I... like say...
I do not think was up to, you know?
The President thinks otherwise.
The lady was recommended by people its extreme trust.
Sorry, but could you tell me who told me with the President?
It was even mentioned that Joël Robuchon to the Minister of Culture.
Joël Robuchon?
Joël Robuchon know, right? Yes, of course.
I only saw him once, exchanged business cards and only.
If you need a few days to settle in Paris, will not be any problem.
Yes, but must admit that I can not leave my farm well from day to night.
Animals, my uncle... so many things.
Surely find a solution.
Yes, yes, speak with such certainty.
Ah! Important. Never cross the courtyard.
Follow the wall and enter the small door here to go down to the basement.
Or between the Rue des Élysées on the left, but this is the input suppliers.
It would not be smart. Please.
Another important recommendation.
The people crossing.
Young, old, known, unknown... Greet them all.
Say good morning with deference, because you never know who can be bump.
Has sense of direction? Why? I need a compass?
This is important when working at the Élysée, as important as the protocol.
For one side there is the east entrance, the other west.
East, west.
First the west, The Wild West as some say.
This is due to the hired killers ..
To get an idea...
Central prepares 70,000 meals per year served by a team of 24 people.
The pans are all copper, the time of Louis Philippe
and take an hour and a half every day to clear.
But do not be frightened.
They are all experienced and light, as racers. And wear white gloves.
Excuse.
This is Mr. Lepiq our chef.
Yes No...
We will do a more thorough next time.
I'm looking for superintendent... Ah, Mr. Moncoulon!
Mr. Moncoulon, our assistant. Madame Laborie, which will handle the private kitchen of the President.
Well, they're all very busy. Come here...
Where is the superintendent?
Lepiq still on the phone...
I'm not finding Mr. Coche-Dury. I'll call him...
Just a minute.
Good day, Philippe Coche-Dury. We had an appointment, sorry for the delay...
Do not worry. He was about to call you.
Well, excuse me...
Were going to go through the reserve, finally....
If you want we can start immediately.
Yes Follow me.
Never need to make purchases in person.
The Palace has its own suppliers. If you need anything....
Pity can not stay longer, but anything that needs...
Any questions or problems, you know where to find me.
Okay? Sense of direction?
This!
Bye. Azoulay.
As I said, if you need anything in particular will need first pass through my hands.
Absolutely everything must be justified.
Here is the refrigerator.
There are, of course, meat, fish, etc...
's Continue here.
Here is the dining room of the Great Kitchen.
This is where every day at 11:30 on the dot,
lady will be invited to share a table with Pascal Lepiq, his assistant and his pastry chef.
Good day. Good morning.
Good day.
That long hallway!
Here call it "The Tunnel".
Mr. Luchet not here? No, but I can call him if you wish.
Do not need to. I'll take care.
I present... Nicolas Bauvois.
Nicolas Bauvois, young icing the Central Kitchen highlighted for you.
Good morning. Good morning.
It will be his assistant.
Excuse me, I will seek the maître.
Mean that it was "seconded" to me?
Yes, ma'am.
So...
This is the "Piano Lacanche". Yes, I see.
The same on the other side.
But are new!
Actually there were very little used.
What is this machine?
Is a Pacojet, ma'am.
Is a machine for making ice creams, sorbets...
Later you me explain this...
And that? What is it?
Is a pressure cooker Gastrovac.
Is equal to a small pot that can be emptied with a pump
Turns on here, is regulated so...
What is this? This is precisely to the temperature. Makes a noise...
It is quite complicated, huh?
And this is an oven? Yes, it's a Convotherme.
This is written there.
No... yes... is way to tell. Is a steam oven.
Fits fish, vegetables, some meats at low temperatures...
I present Mr. Luchet, maître charge of the private service.
Madame.
Lord.
Only exceptionally know in advance how many people will be at the table.
Generally be advised at 11:00 am...
For a lunch that will be served at 13:15.
Which will give you two hours to prepare it forcing her to perform here every morning.
It's me who should submit the suggestion menu.
Submit it'll secretariat of the President
that in return it corrected or uncorrected, to be sent to the printer.
A table will be set before noon depending on the number of guests.
The napkins are passed on site lest they loved.
This way, please.
Then comes the silver and finally the florist.
Excuse. What President expects me exactly?
That is, the President has any preference special?
Something you do not like it? No one told me anything of your taste.
Since I arrived I only speak of paths, protocols, of hired killers, compasses...
But no kitchen.
Maybe we should arrange a meeting with President to know what he wants.
Not so things work.
If you want a President to make an appointment with you, he will know.
Are coming!
Gentlemen! Good appetite at all.
Good day.
Good day, gentlemen. Good morning.
Tucked little woman, huh?
But it's beautiful... Enough, speak low.
Knew that before coming here worked jeep Dordogne.
They say that this is very common in the interior.
No, not quite.
Seems who are misinformed.
Actually, I'm one of the pioneers in organizing internships for foreigners in initiating in French Cuisine.
In the manufacture of foie gras and magrets of confit, etc..
This is it...
It's happened to receive young chefs worldwide, Japan, the United States...
Anyway, must have read it somewhere, in Le Bohemio, in Time Magazine...
Here there is not much time to read...
Well, then, good appetite at all.
Ah, sorry, had already begun.
It is the first and last time as with these chauvinistic.
There are bad people...
Not just gross.
've Driven before on roads as well?
Sure 've driven on roads like this before.
Is just to take care of you.
John! What?
The camera, the camera! Is the cook! Shoots!
Have you seen? No!
As well, no? I can not see shit!
Hi!
Hey!
If you managed to catch it will be fantastic...
John, what is it?
The battery? Asshole!
Jacques! Yes?
Need to talk to that Australian to stop insisting.
I said last night. So she did not understand.
I was giving my race and she chased me with the truck.
I can not stand.
'll Talk to her again.
Wanted some peace. After all is my last day at the base.
I need to prepare a huge dinner, I'm exhausted...
Not want me to film.
Just want to miss filming in bathroom.
Lets me.
Hello? Good morning, ma'am.
Okay. Then ?
Get to work. Six people for lunch.
The President will receive 5 guests today at noon here at the Élysée Palace.
Really? We have already been informed, Jean-Marc.
Ah?
And they have planned?
Hmm .. still do not know.
Okay.
Take a dozen mushrooms-de-bordeaux...
Will pick up too...
Is not it... ah, here it is...
This large cabbage. Hm-hmm.
Carrots small... ah, I prefer those there.
To prepare a good broth.
So, start with a mushroom broth - De-bordeaux the chervil
followed cabbage stuffed salmon.
Maybe grilled, perhaps with cubes of bacon...
Wait... I'll write down exactly?
Cabbage stuffed with salmon in Scotland and carrots from the Loire Valley.
I like things with known origin.
And for dessert?
Saint-Honoré, Jean-Marc.
You can begin to strain the broth.
Yeah, so put it in the oven.
Meanwhile, my carrots five minutes in the steam...
Then go directly to the cabbage...
Ah, Nicolas, I need a etamina.
From what? A etamina, a piece of thin fabric.
For my line sieve. Hmm .. No, we do not have it.
Go see if they have at Central, please. Yes, boss.
What is the Du Barry wants now? Need a etamina.
Do what with a etamina? For a cabbage.
Need a etamina to line a sieve and prepare a stuffed cabbage.
Prepare a stuffed cabbage, is it?
The cabbage will fill the President, that is.
Easy there... Let's get back to work, folks.
Head...
Nicolas...
If you want something in private
here is what to look for, but in the oversight after passing the Coche-Dury.
Tell your boss that this here is no fair or bazaar, okay?
Yes, boss.
Well, they do not have.
Well ..
I will leave 15 minutes. Ah, good?
Can you finish the Saint-Honoré in the meantime? Yes, boss.
With Chiboust cream? No! Cream memee.
Wait! What is a cream memee? Where are you going?
I'll be back in 15 minutes.
What is a cream memee?
You are the icing.
Memee... must have to do with grandma.
Once put the flour
add hot milk to soften the mixture
then mix it with the rest of the milk.
Put on low heat until boiling, stirring constantly for five minutes.
Okay, found it!
Nicolas, the most important...
When add the egg whites, make sure that the cream is hot...
So they cook a bit.
This.
Liner with two layers of cabbage...
Layer salmon...
So.
Jean-Marc, a little coarse salt.
Thank you. I repeat the operation...
Seems perplexed. How?
Cook when I need to talk, say everything that I do.
I am well. For me...
Excuse. What? Ah!
Prove.
Just like my grandmother. Bravo!
Please, gentlemen. Bring the dishes here.
What is the President?
Put ​​it here.
Do you know if he ate the whole cabbage?
I think so. He ​​ate the carrot leaves?
At first glance he looked surprised.
Cut a sheet, ate a carrot...
A bit then took a sheet with a fork
watched carefully and ate savoring, no doubt.
Yes point for him.
Can remove dishes, please.
But he may have pretended.
Private kitchen of the Presidency, can talk.
Soften until consistency to sprinkle with chervil
filet en croute accompanied by mushroom fricassee girolle
and to conclude, strawberry pie Patissiere
and nougatine with pistachio.
The door is still closed. I'll call the concierge.
You can leave, I turn around.
Oh .. I'm sorry. I think I lost.
What? The lady is...?
I'm your cook, Mr. President.
Hortense Laborie.
Ah, yes, of course.
Is everything running as expected?
Does not lack anything? No, everything is perfect.
So far my obligations do not allow me to give you welcome.
But reservarei a good time to talk with you.
With pleasure.
I wish you a good day.
Good morning, Mr. President.
There! Thank you, Hortense.
Well, um...
Please!
Explicaçõezinhas a need to give...
First, truffles come straight from my own truferia.
There's a bit in the gratin, but tonight the find essentially potatoes Sarladaise.
Another thing...
Unfortunately mushrooms-de-bordeaux that will eat the gratin are lyophilized.
I'm sorry, but...
If you ever want a real taste macaroni gratin with mushrooms-de-bordeaux
just visit me in Périgord. There is so far 12,000 kms...
Everyone is invited!
'll Leave you eating and 'll do what I always do after lunch...
From now Grégory and Loic will be responsible, good appetite.
How long she worked for the President? Three years.
Not less than that. He ​​told me three years.
Why did she not tell me? It is also like us.
She does not like to talk about it.
I think that it unsympathetic. You have to understand.
Since she left the Élysée
Just makes everyone wonder how was the President...
What he liked to eat...
If you knew he was sick...
If you had sex with him...
What?
"Had sex" if he slept with the President.
Politicians get wrapped up in sex with beautiful women...
The journalists, the assistants...
In Australia it is not so?
No. We have a President of the Republic.
In Australia is different because it is a monarchy.
It is constitutional... No, they have the Chamber of Deputies...
Anyway fuck... Boys!
The President wants to talk to me.
Please awaits the President.
The President knows that we are ready to go?
He wanted to get Mrs. Laborie. Guaranteed that it will not take more than ten minutes.
The President will only leave in ten minutes. Ten minutes?
'll Call the Le Bourget to delay takeoff.
Gentlemen, all the stations in five minutes.
I am very happy to be here in this splendid house,
very honored by the trust placed in me...
Work in excellent conditions with the help of a very talented young man.
But...
One thing I miss.
A direction.
I do not know what kind of cuisine await me.
Make a simple kitchen.
Hate complications, much adorned preparations, decorations useless...
When I came here
the confectioner, surely to please me,
gave themselves the trouble to decorate their desserts Rosinhas with sugar.
Rosinhas sugar.
I dreaded those Rosinhas.
Systematically I separated them on my plate.
And they consistently reappeared on my plate.
Finally, I had to send a note I get rid of them permanently.
Need to rediscover the taste of things.
From the simple things, true.
For example, I loved the mushroom omelet-de-bordeaux who prepared the first day.
If preparing dishes like my grandmother...
Give I will by happy.
Give me what is best in France.
Hello, yes...
Huh?
How not yet departed?
No one thought to tell the President? No.
Someone called the Mayor? No.
How long is she with?
There are 5 minutes.
What have much to talk about? Do not know.
Well, try to find out!
As a child, I loved cookbooks.
Do not say, recipe books, you too?
Know the "Éloge à la Cuisine Française" Édouard Nignon?
No, I think not, Mr. President.
When I was a child I read cookbooks.
O Nignon was my favorite.
Its revenues made me dream.
Knew them by heart.
I think I even still remember some of them.
For example, I remember...
Duck Rouen to Surprise.
Began with these words:
The country of Pierre Corneille...
Make me get a duck of the fattest.
The country of Pierre Corneille
make me get a duck of the fattest.
Nowadays not write more so, times were different.
Another culture.
I think I'd be here talking hours cooking.
Will conclude our conversation by asking whether it would not be worth more than deal with policy.
Ready. Are leaving.
Philippe, call the airport. Say you're gonna be late for another half hour.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Do not believe it! President...
What is happening?
What got into him? He ​​said he would be only 10 minutes.
Forgiveness does not mean to question the quality of suppliers Palace
but I think I could find better things yet.
Actually, I would be able to choose the products personally...
Without having to go through Central.
Is the Élysée again. We had fresh setback.
For example, in Pazayac, a small town near where I live,
know a woman who creates the best chicken in the world.
E Bullock Coutency, you know? Are the Limousin breed.
Are created with Kobe, in Japan ..
Receive daily massages, making his flesh soft and tasty.
Extraordinary!
Thank you.
Ms. Laborie, can I talk to you a moment?
I'm busy, Lord Chief Cabinet. Other time.
The President's favorite champagne.
I have just learned that the President authorized the...
Forgiveness... Hello, Tonton?
Yes! I have something to ask you.
Can spoon 3 or 4 pounds of mushrooms-de-bordeaux?
No major. From small, like champagne cork.
I would like to speak with Mr. Papas, please.
Of the Presidency of the Republic.
No, no joke.
To noon will be lamb chop with herbs, potatoes Julia...
Then Aravis tuna with marmalade...
And, finally, pets nonne of dessert.
's lt.
And if the President ask what are potatoes Julia, tell him that Julia was my grandmother.
This is my creative chicken it holds for me the blood of their birds.
I use it for my fillings and sauces.
Course with a tablespoon of vinegar not to clot.
How weighs!
Tell the President not forget to try the crouton bread with garlic...
Mrs. Deville serve him inside.
Recipe "Oreiller de la Belle Aurore".
Prepare two fillings...
The first prepared with lean veal and pork, the second...
Made chicken liver and chicken from Bresse
partridges, gizzards... ...Almonds in quantity proportional to the Pie...
Mix an egg... ...Broth and reduced to a smooth paste.
Perfect, perfect.
I put the duck to cook...
Add a jetty cardamom with salvia...
While slowly cooking the duck...
Get busy with the vegetables for the kitchen garden of sommière.
Hortense, what do you do after you put salvia? I do not understand.
Do not give to hear.
Mind your scallops. But is what I'm doing, Laborie Chef.
Stop call me Chef. I am fortunate to have a beautiful old name...
Which comes from the Latin "hortus"
which means... Have you ever told me, but I forgot.
Hmmm... I do not remember.
Garden. That garden.
E Nicolas, know what I mean?
No. It means "the place where you purchase wine."
Chez Nicolas.
Hortense!
I was looking for you everywhere. I slept a little longer than it should, anyway...
Then we prepare dinner? Let .
Come on...
President. I was told that was not going well.
It was nothing. Do not play with these things.
Health is our most precious possession.
Every year in May in Paris...
I gather my family, my closest friends
a great banquet held in the ballroom.
Will come my brothers and sisters with their spouses
their children, of course...
For family lunch.
I would, therefore, for this outstanding lunch,
I submit a project menu.
Yes?
Oh, please, Mr. Coche-Dury between.
Sit.
I was explaining to Mrs. Laborie character through exceptional
I would give it to my meeting in the month of May.
I am eager to know the menu that Ms. Laborie will devise.
Why? You have been invited, Mr. Coche-Dury?
To my knowledge, Mr. Coche-Dury is not yet part of my family.
The use of the word "us" reminds me King Louis XIV.
Saying "we" to talk about themselves.
But through it all was France that was expressed.
I am sure that Mr. Coche-Dury
meant that all France was anxious to know the menu that will be prepared.
In any case, thank you, on behalf of all France, Mr. Coche-Dury.
The President want the table to be put in the conservatory
to get closer to your guests.
I believe will be a lunch meet twenty guests. Twenty-one, to be precise.
Therefore, the President will have lunch in the conservatory
after which he will meet here at this site with his cousins, nephews...
Your friends...
Was formidable. Ah, thank you.
Very pleased and thank you, gentlemen.
I'm sorry....
To eat all together traditional dessert Ysèges.
THE lady, therefore, is responsible for lunch
and Central Kitchen to the buffet and desserts.
Any questions?
My idea is to prepare a family meal focused on the Loire and its tributaries.
We could start with Foie de Canard en Gelée au Coteaux du Layons
and corn bread... Nicolas, I want to try some corn bread...
Something like bread with spices or gallette, understand?
But that is crunchy, huh? All right.
Okay.
Then.... what was I jotted down....
Petits Gris Cassoulet à la Nantaise
followed by a Chaudree Charantaise.
Do you know what? Chaudree Charantaise?
Is a fish soup and sepia.
Will serve as a main dish.
After goat cheese Grévy
and to finish a Jonchée Rochefortaise.
Jonchée Rochefortaise... What is this?
It is a kind of white cheese.
Made from milk curd flavored with bay leaves
to be eaten on a blade of reed braided straps.
Something that can only be achieved by ordering
and maybe we can try to do here. It would be fun, no?
This is for you, Nicolas. I love it.
So I think that menu?
It seems very consistent.
And you, Alix? I like this bias Intermares.
To follow all this is a logical need. I would be in the Loire.
A record of freshness, of minerality.
To accompany the foie gras we can start with a Vouvray
then one chert.
E with Chaudree? The Chaudree...
I thought of a Coulée Serrant Vivigne...
Closing with a Rougeard Clos des Frères Foucault.
Wines of the Loire Valley.
Tin-tin. Health, Hortense.
Five cuttlefish and three flounder, please.
Good day, was the Chamber of Agriculture of...
The Chamber of Agriculture of Charente-Maritime, yes was the one who gave me your number.
Found in "Meet the Kitchen De Charentes."
Is an old edition, 1922.
1922.
Ready blade twisted strips of reeds.
Pick up the mixture, we prepare it on the blade of reed
and folds.
No...
No, it did not work.
Ah, this recipe is not good?
Seco too.
Do not put white wine in Chaudree?
Ah, then places.
But that's before...
Before... after?
A little firm, but...
Excuse me, I'll spit out.
Not so. It's still not it.
Well, and then? Ufa, she talks all backwards!
Senho... lady, wait.
Cut into slices or made whole?
No, no, no, Cuttlefish white!
There is unraveling. Is not there.
I'll try again.
Goodbye, lady.
Hortense, wait, wait!
A new experience of cornbread. I made some small changes.
Bitter. Too bitter.
We will see it tomorrow. Goodbye, Nicolas. Good night, Hortense.
Bitter.
Worked. The menu was accepted by the President.
Ah!
Good.
Perfect.
Come on, quick!
End there is good to be able to handle the menu.
This is a joke, huh?
This dessert looks funny.
Dessert is me.
With the lady's starter, main course and cheese.
So do me the favor of removing that your dessert menu.
Please! Yes, but is not Jonchée dessert, cheese is white.
Okay mocking me? This is debauchery?
Cream almonds, this is cheese?
Elderberry syrup is cheese? Hey, it's hot out there!
Nicolas, keep an eye there. Can leave.
Chef!
I did not mean to hurt you, but I can not change the menu since been validated by the President.
Ah, the President! Think not realize your arrangement with him?
This bastard wants to become a useless is this?
I am 30 years of service, ma'am. Thirty years!
I met a lot of people like you who are home owners.
Lovers masquerading as friends of the President...
Crooked and giving orders to the right...
These people are all like that, but not me!
Not with me, with me it is different!
And do not forget dessert is me, not with you!
Can not serve this dessert. Not even as entremets.
Comes down, so the white cheese.
A specialty rochefortaise what pleases him.
What does not interfere in any way in the mission entrusted to Central Kitchen, which is to prepare the desserts.
What composes this meal? A beginning, a middle and an end.
's It. Each plate leads to another.
There is an order, a logic.
If you remove the final touch, what's left? One thing lame.
Tell the President that every detail has its importance.
What I mean is that...
Each product was chosen with great attention... At this point the President has other priorities.
Okay.
How did you do that?
Is a bread recipe that I adapted fougasse.
It takes a third of cornmeal
a little honey... a pinch of saffron...
But attention, information...
It is not done in the oven, but the bakery
and not going into the toaster for toasting but the grill hot.
Is less greasy.
Genial. This time was good.
This is the perfect consistency.
It is divine with its almond cream. Thanks.
Only doubt is the jelly on is not too low.
Ah, no, in my opinion there is too much.
Precisely, it lends a floral bouquet which contrasts with the sour cream.
Do you?
Also, know a few chocolates I used to eat as a child.
Soon
is a dessert that brings childhood memories
without falling into demagogy Candy Strawberry tagada
or chestnut ice cream, things like that. Understand what I'm saying?
Hm-hmm. Is there something wrong?
No. We're ready, Nicolas. Bravo.
Deu zebra.
Jonchée asked to remove the menu.
"Asked"? Who? What's this?
I do not know. Came from the General Secretariat.
The President this track?
Do not be surprised.
Have not I asked two assistants, but since there are...
Not send you back to Central. I will be with you.
What are the names?
Hmm .. Abdel Karim. Jonathan.
Know clean a fillet of sole, make a vegetable broth? Yes, Chef!
No, here you do not call me "Chef". Call me Hortense.
Also do not call me "La Du Barry."
I'm wrong? It's what they call me in Central?
Do you know why they call me Du Barry?
Do not know, do not. Do you know?
It's been a long foie gras.
Oh yeah, because of the foie gras. The Countess Du Barry, is it?
Not only.
Is that in the eighteenth century Du Barry was a favorite of King Louis XV.
's Why.
Do you know what is a favorite?
Err... no, ma'am.
Is the mistress of the King
Type whores.
Well, let's get to work. We begin?
Jonathan, the time is fougasse the grill?
45 seconds.
You can put the tartlets. Can you count to 45? Yes, ma'am.
And the cooked fish? Are you ready there, you can book.
The smoking going? Yes
Waiters have ten minutes. We'll assemble the dishes.
You are ready upstairs.
The lack, Jonathan?
Eleven seconds. Count aloud.
Ten, nine, eight...
Take two dishes for tartlets, please.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
Quick, quick. Hurry up.
And then Jean-Marc?
The President said nothing of Chaudree, but that does not mean that...
Come on, do not just stand there. Bring the dishes for the salad, please.
The sauce is ready? Yes, everything is ready.
A third of balsamic vinegar, olive oil a third hazelnut...
A third great olive oil and a third little lemon juice.
What was Nicolas? But this gives four thirds.
Is...
Comment typical icing.
Accustomed to all medidinho, heavy...
Well let me tell you, Nicolas, cook is not an accountant.
Cook is an artist who prefers preparing wonders with a simple Asparagus Argenteuil...
A scallion Paimpol...
A trickle of vinegar of Modena...
Excuse.
Madame Laborie!
I make sure to congratulate her on the success lunch today.
The Chaudree which was prepared exactly like
I ate with my family.
Lunch provided occasion to evoke a flood of childhood memories.
Not forgive myself if I could not thank him.
But I... Madame.
Magnificent, is not it? Yes
Thank you.
Gimme that.
As he did so, the Grand Chef?
Thousand leaves, chocolate, vanilla and candy...
Ganache and bitter orange.
And you liked it?
Hmm ..
Is good. Is.
And you? I do not know, I think...
Associate vanilla with bitter orange does not work.
Not work because...
When chewing a vanilla bean is already rough...
It would also be bitter. And that does not match the bitterness of orange.
Is redundant.
But technically... is well done.
Just has no personality.
I agree. Could be done by anyone.
No authorship.
Hm, blackcurrant is great.
Just kidding.
The President thought it would.
Foreword by Sacha Guitry.
Make me reach the country of abundant herbs,
Normandy where this triumph cows and calves high strain,
one veal loin meat whose equal in whiteness of the finest birds.
Tie it with four loops of string, diced to a shallow baking dish.
Hello?
No.
No, they told me nothing.
I'm going.
Azoulay knew that was replaced?
No.
No... but not up to him to do so.
But it is absolutely useless.
Madame Laborie, the cook of the President.
Yes ..
As you wish.
But do not say we came here.
I do not know, that is say a girl was sent by Cardinal.
Ah, no, no... Yes, talk later.
Jean-Michel Salome. Hortense Laborie.
I'm told has a truferia in Périgord.
Yes ..
Anyway, I just plant the oaks last year.
Before he can harvest them take three or four years.
Hello?
Yes, and then?
But I warned.
Is the crudest guy I know. Yes ..
Surely this is not how he will find a circumscription.
Yes .. okay.
Sorry.
Well, then...
I asked to call him because we are doing a a small reorganization of the Élysée.
E, with respect to the private kitchen,
like that from next week
menus for the President
Undergo further in advance for analysis.
Ah...
For a more complete analysis.
Analysis... how so?
It is the physician's request the President.
E then?
Hope you enjoy working with fruit, my dear Nicolas,
because nannies au rhum, tartelettes the dark chocolate
and with pistachio madeleines were already.
Why?
Why from the week, as in politics, there will be a regime change.
Analyzed the set of menus since his arrival
abandon everything and need for sauce, cheese and sweet.
E considerably reduce all animal fat.
Prioritise lean meats, fish...
And steamed.
But for the guests of President not need to change anything, you can cook...
This will be very difficult.
On the other hand.... Regarding next week...
Oh, sorry. Sorry.
What is it about this "Boeuf de Marigny du Rhône"?
Oh, shovel rump. A good lean meat...
Cut into 1cm slices served with du Touquet Ratte potatoes steamed.
And how prepared? In the pot.
Explain.
I put in the pan...
A layer of onions, a layer of shovel rump,
thyme, salt and repeat the operation finishing with a layer of onion.
Got it so far? Hm-hmm.
Then put to simmer.
After retreat broth, mix with fillet anchovies, I cover with the sauce obtained...
And let cook another hour.
Is delicious. In reference of both land and the sea.
But still, it is a sauce.
No, no, no.
What they call sauce is what makes from the butter mixture with flour...
That is watered with a broth or wine...
Or which adds cream.
In my recipe fat is zero.
Water obtained from onion and beef is how the sauce.
Logo is a sauce, as I say.
Excuse me, ma'am, but I know my craft. I...
I can cook whatever they ask me to cook
but...
How to say.... today who composed the menus was me.
If President liked better for me, if not liked, gambling.
I know what's going changes and I should just run...
Madame Laborie, in the case of the President invited Mrs. continue to choose...
Listen, I tried not to be a cook of an ambassador or a minister any.
I was called to be a cook's President, him and nobody else.
If you want to change, that's fine, but it needs to say.
But that's what we're doing.
Today I learned a new word.
Hm?
Drinkit. Drinkit?
Drinkit with Australian journalist.
So what did you shoot today?.
Like you said? Professional secrecy.
Ah, well.
Been in Australia?
This is another story.
'll Tell you later.
Sit down, please.
Loic, did not I fix anything.
Yes, but... All right, all right.
Take the pan. Will help us serve the magret.
Hortense, come back here! Hortense!
This is also ready.
Hortense, come here! Hortense, come here!
Well
Where are tartelettes? Are already baked.
I'll take them but become dark. Best leave but have to reheat.
Hold everything! The President wants oysters.
A platter for six people in 15 minutes.
Oysters?
But this was not planned!
Well, Nicolas, call Brasserie La Lorraine, please.
Not a good sign when he asks oysters.
I'm going.
Put ​​mixed.
Girardot, Savas yes and yes. Wait...
With flower arrangement, if you can. No ice tray.
Yes, and no ice on the platter.
This, thank you.
Can not have ice on platter. Yes, yes...
Thank you, thank you, it's perfect...
Arrived. We still have time? Yes okay.
Can post here, please.
Prepared a mayonnaise with lemon...
A mousseline and a vinaigrette with shallots ashes.
Okay. Now I will open two cans of pâté de foie gras
how to eat oysters in Arcachon...
And dietitian to go to hell.
I'm afraid that in this heat the oysters...
Nicolas, may ask the Central if they lend in the fridge?
Go to the Central... Do you want me to go?
No, no, sorry!
Here, guys, at three o'clock have to be all set!
Alexi, careful there's going to ruin everything!
Ready, quiet, quiet.
Well ..
Do not want to lend us the fridge.
Jean-Marc Luchet talking.
Yes, I will go for it.
Who is? The Lord Salome.
No thanks.
You there... What just made is absolutely despicable!
Despicable!
Not worthy of a true cook.
If I were not a woman would have broken his face!
If you do not like me, also know that I will not to his face!
E Du Barry sends you all to hell!
What has happened?
I sent the call him because I'm having a little problem, Madame Laborie.
It? They told him that the Central Kitchen refused to lend us your refrigerator?
How?
And that with the heat that was if the platter of oysters was not immediately to the fridge...
Well, do not understand anything seafood.
I sent it because there is a problem with their train tickets.
Ah!
Sit.
How do you explain this roundtrip Brive-Paris, second class, March 3
and that of July 17?
Ah, yes. The Brive-Paris July was for mushrooms-de-bordeaux. Mushrooms?
After the June heat wave we had a month of very rainy July
My daughter picked over 40 pounds of mushrooms on the farm in one morning, never seen anything like it.
Logo, as President loves mushrooms...
The biggest problem was transportation...
Needed to find someone who could go and return the same day.
Then brought me two huge boxes of mushrooms absolutely perfect
not too large and beady, smooth...
That. And my daughter took to add a box of cheese Rocamadour...
Madame, this traffic ticket can not continue.
Because I... What trafficking?
After all, it is not trafficking.
Mushrooms are harvested my daughter. I was not going to waste them, it was necessary...
It can be, but the Élysée is not a travel agency.
It turns out that these passages see stop at my desk and need to justify them.
For everyone wins, the President, the Élysée... I can not understand.
Have you considered buying this quality mushrooms in Paris?
Well, enough. Let us now turn to the quality of their products.
I took the trouble to do a small calculation shows that...
The average price of a meal prepared by Central Kitchen
costs more than three times less than a meal prepared in your.
Yes, but... But is too much!
Can not compare a kitchen that prepares 3,000 meals per month
with a kitchen that prepares 150.
The organization is not the same. The products also are not the same.
This I realized. With prices that suppliers charge until I change jobs.
Do you want to show you the receipts?
Show you the receipts.
Look, I assure you do not waste anything.
Working with people passionate about what they do
level of excellence, it the request of the President himself,
For example, I know a market that grows vegetables have disappeared
new flavors that have long we had forgotten.
All this work has a price. Madame...
Is a price that has to be revised.
Thank you.
This candy is the last thing I do here.
I return to France tomorrow, leave the Base Alfred Faure...
But I think I will not be alone on the boat.
David will be with me, Baptiste also...
Édouard too, of course...
Olivier, no?
Well, just wanted to say a few words...
Tonight I remembered an ad...
It's been over a year now...
"Wanted for a mission in Southern and Antarctic Lands
a man, a chef of 25 years to command a cooking school cafeteria."
I who filled the vacancy and I can guarantee that I fought to conquer it.
I really wanted to come here.
But... well, I do not want to talk about it...
But tell you why I decided to make a Saint-Honoré.
Actually there are two reasons. The first is...
Is a tribute to my grandmother, was she who taught me to do so...
With puff pastry, choux dough and cream.
The other reason is because for more than two years
worked on a street that bears the name of this sweet.
At number 55...
This leaves marks...
But it was here that I could turn the page.
Why live like this island for a year
in the wind, in the cold...
Isolation...
Gave me strength.
Well, I will keep doing so many confidences because look what I'm seeing...
What you want is to eat!
Enjoy the candy!
Has everyone.
I eat a firecracker.
Need something, Mr. President?
's Okay... everything is fine.
Madame Arvelet told me he received truffles.
Yes Okay informed.
Want to see them?
Do not fumble? Now, no way.
I imagine that will be the first of the season. Yes
Look.
How wonderful!
Château Rayas 1969.
Thank you.
Perfect.
Misery are doing with you lately, huh?
Me too.
Adversity.
Personally, it's adversity that remains between us.
Is a compliment. Understand?
Good evening, ma'am.
Good evening, Mr. President.
Fillet of sole I've put on 25.
So Let's put a fish less greasy... It will make a big difference.
Gonna get better... No, let's think of something else.
Good day, Nicolas. Good morning, Jean-Marc.
The President will not have lunch here today.
Okay.
Good day. Thanks.
Anyway, Mr. Pascal will Lepiq who accompany the President on his official visit to Tunisia.
During the four days of your trip will be a lady, Madame Laborie,
that takes care of the Élysée.
Taking into account that their services will be resumed after returning from the President.
What will happen on the 7th morning. A Tuesday.
Is called fatigue fracture. That dash here until the height of the tibia.
Is almost invisible on a plain radiograph. Happened alone.
Requires home, walking as little as possible and avoid force the affected leg.
Make way!.
Hortense.
I'm here.
What is hiding?
I'm just a little tired.
All you did was great for dinner.
The magret was not juicy.
Some days so things do not work out.
Just do not understand why.
Are you sad? No.
Is a pity to go away tomorrow.
You know what I do?
I get drunk. I also.
Will you risk it?
Hortense! Yes?
Ladies and gentlemen...
Will count tonight, from the menu, the story...
Yet!
Well the story of the cook spicy it almost became Prime Minister of France.
This true story begins in the Élysée Palace.
That day, as it did every morning
President came smelling odors went up to his room.
So what prepared me good, my dear Hortense ?
President, made of veal kidneys... No, no, do not say anything.
Let me give you just a sniff in their kidneys.
The President loved the veal kidneys with poulette sauce made by Hortense.
Actually loved everything about it. I loved her beautiful breasts filled...
Its sole divine, all...
Even your pets from choux nonne perfumadinhos.
Now what would give me the greatest pleasure would eat together such the kidneys.
Sorry, but for more than two hours we try to talk to you.
I'm sorry, but you need the lady in the kitchen.
A plane will depart tomorrow morning to catch the President... In, please.
How? A plane will depart tomorrow morning...
To catch the President in Tunisia.
Need preparing food for the twelve personalities that will be part of the entourage.
We will receive confirmation of flight soon at night.
Where do you got? For more than two hours that are behind you.
What time does the plane? At 6:50.
Hortense, I picked this rose... The rose, the rose, where's the pink?
I picked this rose in the gardens of the Elysee, hidden gardener.
But President need not kneel.
Woe, woe, woe, to help me get up.
Mr. President, you're hurting me! Let's see the dishes that will prepare...
What good is we live close together.
If this keeps up, Mr. President, I will send him end their meetings in Central Kitchen!
This does not, do not!
But it is my heart that is speaking, Hortense!
Yes, monopoly heart so I know I have.
Forgot accent now, where's the accent?
What about so a Légion d'Honneur? Not so that I will win.
So will Prime Minister.
Words, words, words... You're beautiful!
Words, words, words... Still beautiful!
Only words, as you are evil.
Caramels, bonbons and chocolates...
Thank you, but to me it does not serve. Provide any other...
Well, just...
Fortunately, dear Hortense...
Lady had the good idea to refuse become Prime Minister of France.
On the first day we arrived already lost some of that sense Antarctica.
Exactly one year.
And, to be frank, the lady did not seem very comfortable.
Realized output to antagonize her was not a good.
Its boundaries took on the serious.
We could not enter the kitchen...
Us dwell on the dishes to eat...
We had to lift the finger to ask salt...
Do not speak French wrong Otherwise it was just one reguada!
We had to call her up "madame"... We could not treat her "you."
But today, Hortense, we use "you" first.
And say that we love as you are.
Say that we miss.
And we will not forget it.
E choux their pets for nonne too.
Therefore, we can only say "goodbye", Hortense.
It's just goodbye.
Yes, we'll meet again, Hortense...
Is just a good bye.
You will need to leave us without hope, no hope of return?
You will need to leave us without hope of ever us review?
It's just a bye, Hortense, is just a good bye!
We'll drink to your kindness.... . .
It's just a good bye.
I came to ask permission to go home, sir.
Within that suits you, If possible today.
Here is my letter of resignation.
And a letter addressed to the President of the Republic.
Thank you.
Good day, gentlemen. Good morning.
Good day. Looking for Mr. Moncoulon. It's right back there.
Thank you.
Good morning, Mr. Salome. Good morning.
I wish to inform you that from Tuesday the Central Kitchen resume the services of private.
I've told the Pascal Lepiq in Tunisia. He ​​should not delay in seeking it.
Well Good morning.
Good day, gentlemen. Good morning.
Gentlemen, can party! The owner of the rules is sent.
President of the Republic
When you read this letter back from his trip to Tunisia I'll be gone already.
Will I stripped my black apron and left the kitchen the Élysée.
If I decided to leave today, did it not feel more to the task entrusted to me.
However, for almost two years gave me with this mission with all the happiness...
With devotion.
But today, Mr. President, I'm tired,
terribly tired.
So, it's time for me to leave
and give way to a younger, more talented and, perhaps, more obedient.
Held in the shade, my work was sometimes thankless
Rare occasions we were able to find it and not always know if my kitchen was to your liking.
However, despite everything, loved being at your service, Mr. President.
So, it is with sadness that birth...
And there are many memories that will bear with me.
I hope you do not end up forgetting about me
and remember that time when you cook preparing baignets of acacia flowers
and risotto aux trompettes de la mort,
because I have never forget it.
Take care of yourself, Mr. President, and attention to the schemes.
For, as Montesquieu said, the worst disease is the health system by a conserved extreme.
I do not know if the protocol rules allow me, but...
I send you a kiss, with my sincere consideration
Hortense Laborie.
You told me yesterday that...
Was in Australia
I do a survey there...
Sought a plot between Melbourne and Canberra...
To make a truferia..
But I found the perfect place in New Zealand...
That's why I came to this island from hell..
It was a very well paid..
And now I can use the money to get settled there...
New Zealand is beautiful!.
It's wonderful, is a virgin land.
As new.
There is a gold rush, but truffles..
No gold nuggets, but have truffles.
Like truffle?
I love truffles. "Truffes".
"U". It is difficult to say in French, no?.
Truffle...
Okay.
For me there is nothing better in the world.
Exit early in the morning with his dog
walk through the woods, breathing in the smell of the earth
Suddenly the dog starts to get like crazy, sniffs, looking...
And there, at the foot of a tree...
Is perfection...
Miracle...
We have to go, ma'am. Yes