Cap’Handicook
” Cape for capability. Cape for excellence “The ambition of the Cap’Handicook competition, launched in 2019 by chef Nicolas Cadet is clear: to show that the performances of people with disabilities have nothing to envy to those of able-bodied people in the field of cooking. This “Top Chef” of the disabled world aims to encourage […]
Cyril Rouquet-Prévost
A finalist on the Masterchef TV show in 2010, chef Cyril Rouquet-Prévost is a very active chef. As a freelance consultant, author, cooking show host, film producer and columnist, he is a multi-talented and award-winning chef. His taste for competition and his love of Asia led him to win the YiYin Cup on several occasions. […]
Dominique Wing-Ka
He knows what he’s talking about! Originally from La Réunion, Dominique Wing-Ka has had a long career in school catering in New Caledonia, having cooked for a number of Michelin-starred restaurants in mainland France. After working for the Vice-Rectorat from 2019 to 2022, he is now in charge of the departmental management of the school […]
HopHopFood
Founded in 2016 by three citizens, HopHopFood, an association recognized as being in the public interest, fights against precariousness and food waste at the same time, through digital tools (app). It’s the solidarity anti-waste! In 2018, it launched Europe’s first platform for food donations between private individuals. In 2020, it completed its platform with donations […]
Xavier Hamon
Artisan-cook Xavier Hamon discovered the Slow Food movement while searching for meaning in his profession. “The turning point in my life as a chef was when I got out of the kitchen, put my boots back on and went out into the fields to meet market gardeners, artisan seed growers and fishermen”. Moving from gourmet […]
Slow Food
Founded in reaction to fast food and fast life, the Slow Food movement has continually evolved since the late 1980s. From the small group of Piedmontese food lovers, led by Carlo Petrini, to the fight against the installation of McDonald’s in Rome in 1986, the movement has become international and transformed into a way of […]
Les Restos du Cœur
Is it still necessary to introduce them? Founded by Coluche in 1985, this association aims “to help and provide voluntary assistance to those in need, particularly in the area of food support through access to free meals, as well as to contribute to their social and economic integration, and to any action against poverty in […]
Giuseppe Franco
Chef Giuseppe Franco, from Rutigiliano in Italy and a teacher at the École Ducasse, works as a volunteer at the Restos du Cœur cooking integration workshops in Beaurains, Pas-de-Calais. “Coming from a poor farming family in Italy, I felt the need to make my cooking more accessible. I wanted to enable families in precarious situations […]
Gabriel Levionnois
“To be able to do together what we can do alone”. This is how Franco-Polynesian chef Gabriel Levionnois, founder of the Pacific Food Lab cluster ten years ago, explains his commitment to school canteen chefs in New Caledonia. His aim is to motivate and inspire children to cook and eat for themselves. A self-defined social […]
Stars and Women
Des Étoiles et des Femmes was initiated in September 2015 by La Table de Cana, the association Festin and Marseille Solutions, based on an original idea by Alain Ducasse. Based on the threefold observation that the unemployment rate for women in priority neighborhoods exceeds 50%, that female representation in gastronomy is low, and that there […]
Eugénie Béziat
It was during a dinner at Hélène Darroze’s home with her parents that Eugénie Béziat’s life changed. While studying literature at the University of Mirail, she was so moved by a dish of oysters in jelly and green apples, that she decided to take up a career in gastronomy. Her BTS in hotel and restaurant […]
Mirna Farhi
After studying gastronomy in Florianópolis, an island in southern Brazil, Brazilian-Swiss-born chef Mirna Farhi arrived in Paris to work in the restaurant at the Palais du Luxembourg. After working as chef Alexandre Furtado’s right-hand woman for 5 years, she helped him launch two new establishments, before moving to Bordeaux where, during the Covid, she set […]