A beautiful recipe book by Anne Etorre retraces the abundant life of this pioneering and freedom-loving chef, who made a career in a world of cuisine then dominated by men.
«Corsica gave the world Napoleon, but it also gave us Olympus. A great lady and a great chef whose cooking I appreciate so much. » Like Francis Ford Coppola, whose quote opens Olympus. A free cookrecently published by Hachette, there were many aficionados of Olympe Versini's cuisine, from the opening of his first restaurant, in Montparnasse, in 1973, until the sale of his last establishment, in the Saint-Georges district, in 2013.
In the meantime, the woman who is now 74 years old will have won, in an environment dominated by men, three hats from Gault & Millau, been the youngest woman to be starred by the Michelin Guide, the first to make recipes in live on television, signed the Bains Douches menu, launched the catering of the Virgin Megastore, pioneered bistronomy as well as tapas around the world… And yet, his name only resonates today in the memory of connoisseurs. An injustice that…
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