No one can have forgotten the stews and gratins of Maïté, the essential cook on the small screen. According to Actu Landes, Marie-Thérèse Ordonez, her real name, died during the night from Friday to Saturday, at the age of 86.
She became famous throughout France with her show The Musketeers' Kitchen broadcast on France 3, which often featured dishes from the South-West.
Former SNCF announcer
Before moving into the kitchen, Maïté was first a maid and then an announcer for the SNCF in the departments of Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Spotted during a filming, she begins to host the culinary show The Kitchen of the Musketeers with Micheline Banzet-Lawton. Some sequences remain cult like in 1992, during a recipe during which an eel was to be knocked out using a mortar pestle.ecalcitrant.
She is also a presenter at Sud radio, appears in It's not rocket science and lends his face to several advertising spots such as those for Rondelé, Bonux laundry detergent and William Saurin preserves.
In her native Landes, Maïté opened a restaurant in Rion, a restaurant in which the recordings of her shows also took place. She ended up closing this first establishment before opening another in the same city, Chez Maïté, which was liquidated in April 2015.
On screen, she became an actress in the comedy Le Fabuleux Destin de Madame Petlet, praised by critics. She releases a number of books, VHS and DVD revolving around the kitchen.
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