Maïté left us on December 21 at the age of 86. For sixteen years, until 1999, she accompanied the French in their cooking thanks to her two television programs on France 3, The Musketeers' Kitchen et At the table.
France 3 honors the memory of Maïté
As the first small screen star from the culinary world, the one whose marital name was Marie-Thérèse Ordonez quickly became a real star. Ultra-popular, she will finally be entitled to a tribute from the France Télévisions channel at the end of the week. This Sunday, January 5, France 3 will do without a best-of of Sophie Davant's animal magazine In good companyto broadcast a documentary instead unpublished on the famous Landes restaurateur, entitled Maïté, a woman of her time. This one will come back to “the major stages of her personal and television career and allows you to find some of the best moments of the show which made her famous and dear to the hearts of viewers“.
Maïté, a godmother for Cyril Lignac and Philippe Etchebest
When she passed away almost two weeks ago, Maïté's successors on the small screen sent her touching words to thank her. On Instagram, Cyril Lignac wrote: “What a joy to have shared all these moments with you! Your good humor, your good cooking that we shared at your home with my parents, I will never forget“. For his part, Philippe Etchebest, who made his first television appearance on his set on France 3, declared in The Parisian : “Maïté is an emblematic figure of French cuisine. He was quite a character. She embodied traditional local cuisine, but also generosity, good humor, these little mother's or grandmother's dishes that she prepared for us at home. She certainly democratized cooking at home in a certain way, and was the initiator of the arrival of media chefs. She was an extremely caring person. (…) She had this incredible charisma, this very strong personality and this great presence on screen. She will leave an incredible void“.
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