This is where she was born 86 years ago, this is where she lived and this is where she will rest for eternity. Maïté, whose real name is Marie-Thérèse Ordonez, was buried this Thursday in Rion-des-Landes, the village where she was born on June 2, 1938. During this last tribute, no stars or high-sounding names for salute the one who restored its letters of nobility to local gastronomy in the program “La cuisine des mousquetaires” from 1983 to 1997, on FR3.
In the assembly gathered at the Saint-Barthélemy church, we find his neighbors, his lifelong friends and of course his family including his granddaughters, Perrine, 24 years old, and Camille Ordonez 23 years old. Their father, Serge, the cook’s only son, died of cancer in 2013. As for her husband, Jean-Pierre Ordonez, known as “Pierrot”, he died in 2020, at the age of 84 years old.
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Preceding the coffin in the church, a large framed photo shows Maïté in her reserved domain dressed in a white apron and, as usual, smiling in contrast to the accusations of brutality towards animals which have dogged her throughout his television saga. Very undeserved criticism, as starred chef Jean–François Piège recalls in our tribute to Maïté: “It enabled the transmission on television of this long-term, family-style country cuisine. She had no prohibitions or provocation, it was tradition. Preparing food is an act of love, there is no bad intention. It’s simply about perpetuating a way of doing things, a history and a territory with the products and those who make them. »
