With formidable humor, great authenticity and an extraordinary sense of self -mockery, Simon Boulerice tells of her culinary misfortunes and wink at Jehane Benoît in her new book, My life in the microwave. This novelist, columnist, actor, playwright, scriptwriter and successful host reveals how inadequate he is in a kitchen. For him, the “popcorn” touch of the microwave is a real life buoy. He imagined that Jehane Benoît in person came to his aid … and shares their tasty dialogues.
Simon Boulerice’s new book is published by Cardinal Éditions.
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Simon Boulerice is a successful author, an admired actor, an adored host, a confirmed playwright and a very solicited author during the book fairs. But it turns out to be much less comfortable in a kitchen …
In his book, he recounts several of his “exploits”, including that of having put an oven in a plastic container when he was young. He dreads to set fire to his house using the stove. And he learned to multiply meals with a single roast chicken bought from the grocery store.
In an interview, Simon Boulerice explains that My life in the microwave is one of his most personal projects. “For me, it is a tribute to many women, including my grandmother, and to Jehane Benoît. And talking about our skills, in general, is quite vulnerability, especially when you’re not very talented, like me. ”
“I have no creativity in a kitchen, but I am able to appreciate it in others. I find it very beautiful. I listen to the show The chiefs With delight: it is inaccessible, unreal for me. “
For him, cooking is important, unifying. “I find it quite intimate, as a story. I have the impression that the Quebec people, we are orchestrated around the kitchen. In Christmas parties, in parties in general, the kitchen island, this is the place where everyone is lodged. ”
“We are talking, we eat at the same time and we don’t see the living room much … I have the impression that this is the place where we are most the most.”
Happy despite everything
“I wanted to open the door-the fridge door, let’s put-to everything that lives in me,” he said, explaining that, for him, the use of a culinary chapter came late. “I learned my first recipe in the process of writing.”
“There are certain areas in which I feel solid naturally. But in general, what has always defined me was my inability, my incapacity, that I wanted to be sherk in this book. ” He still wants to be reassuring: “I have a happy life anyway.”
Simon Boulerice says that he is quite “gnochon” in the kitchen and that he often does the case not to be done. “I have so on odd … I stuck the salmonella twice. I am very clumsy, and it looks like I associated the kitchen with a dangerous place, where I could either set fire, or poison myself! ”
Tribute to Jehane Benoît
In the book, he revisits an era and pays homage to the famous work Microwave cuisine From Jehane Benoît, the great lady of Canadian cuisine, who has revolutionized the daily life of thousands of people through this publication.
“She is really the great lady of Canadian cuisine. I read a lot on her. This book, I read it from one cover to another and I found it superbly written. His prose was sumptuous. It made me smile. It packed me. “
“I liked everything she represented. I wanted to involve her so that she is like a kind of cheerleader, motivator who arrives in my kitchen. ”
My life in the microwave
Simon bowlerice
Cardinal editions
224 pages
- Simon Boulerice is the author of more than 70 works.
- It is one of the central figures of the Quebec cultural scene.
- He had to go to Cannes at the beginning of May for the Caneser competition, because the series he wrote, Infiltrate life, has been selected there. It will be broadcast on TV5 in 2026. “We shot last fall. I play a police investigator. “
- He will come back to the show Sweet sweet. He will also participate in Good evening Good evening! et Hello hello.
- He currently writes a suspense, I hold you.
- This fall appear a children’s album this fall, illustrated by Francis-William Rhéaume.
“I have a passion for oxymoros and all incongruous juxtapositions. Adjoining cookbook to my name is an exquisite nonsense, like the artist Francis Bacon, fiercely atheist, who, all his life, painted popes, crucifixions and other openly religious themes. Here is the culinary testimony of a
Atheist of the stoves. ”
-Simon Boulerice, My life in the microwaveCardinal editions
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