She is one of the most star-studded women in the world and she generously shares her cuisine and her values

London, Marrakech, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade (next to Aix-en-Provence) and Paris, obviously. Hélène Darroze, the chef – even if she hates this term – now shares her generous cuisine wherever the wind takes her. She has just returned from Marrakech, where she signed the menu for La Grande Table Marocaine, at the Royal Mansour. Between travel, visits to her restaurants, filming the show “Top Chef” and her family life, she readily admits that it can sometimes cause her to lose her mind.

A huge multitasking round table

Thank God she welcomes us in Paris: at the Marsan restaurant, a stone’s throw from the Bon Marché Rive Gauche. This is also the place where she installed her bodyguards – around twenty people. It is the most unifying place, the showcase of its group which employs 200 people. Perhaps because her name evokes her region, which she loves so much, and her origins. She lives just a five-minute walk away – the proximity to home is « essential