Vou may have read it here: last Monday, in Lyon, the Japanese chef Taiki Mano, officiating in Tokyo, won the 15e pâté-croute world championship in front of his friend from Kobe, Seigo Ishimoto. While in 2023 Frédéric Le Guen-Geffroy was crowned, this year, the first Frenchman, Damien Raymond, placed third. The Franco-Japanese revenge of taste is planned in a few weeks, still in the capital of Gaul. But in a completely different context: that of the world final of the Bocuse d'or, the famous cooking competition created by Paul Bocuse at the end of the 1980s.
It will be January 26 and 27 and there will also be Americans, Slovaks, Moroccans, Norwegians and candidates of 18 other nationalities. Paul Marcon, son of Régis Marcon and brother of Jacques, duo at the helm of the three-star family restaurant in Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid (Haute-Loire), will be the candidate for the French team. He thus succeeds Naïs Pirollet, 5e in 2023. To get there, Paul Marcon has already won the Bocuse d'or France and finished 5e at the Bocuse d'or Europe in March 2024, securing the qualifying place for the supreme joust.
Surrounded by the “France team”, made up of chefs, best workers in France, Bocuse d’or winners, coaches, catering professionals and partners, he has been preparing for the grand final ever since. We met him a few days ago in Paris, he who, in the back of his mind, has the dream of […] Read more
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