In 1968 Michel Savreux was 19 years old, he joined the Escale restaurant in Le Touquet as a clerk and it was there that he learned everything.
We go back in time on Sunday in Flavor side. Michel Savreux, from the restaurant La Picardière in Epagnette near Abbeville chose to tell us his memories of 1968, year in which he left the family restaurant of Nouvion en Ponthieu to join the brigade of a great restaurant in Touquet: L’Escale. It is there that he learns the rigor of the trade.
1968 the year of a revolutionary May
- On February 5, strikes by railway workers in Grenoble before the opening of the Olympic Games, bank employees in Paris and Air Inter flight personnel.
- February 6 opening of the Winter Olympics in Grenoble. The Olympic cauldron is lit by Alain Calmat (former figure skater, doctor, politician) in front of the 60,000 spectators. Jean Claude Killy wins 3 gold medals in alpine skiing. The images are being broadcast live for the first time in color and all over the world.
- April 7: death of Pépée, Léo Ferré’s female chimpanzee to whom he wrote a song
We were listening in 1968 : Julien Clerc The cavalry, Polnareff sang the bal des lazes, Sylvie Vartan La Maritza, Serge Lama d’Aventures en aventures, Eloïse Claude François and Dalida sang In the Sleeping City. Michel remembers the song He had just turned 18. It was released a little later in 1973 but why deprive our guest of this pleasure, it is therefore this title of Dalida that we are listening to.
At the end of the 1960s, the revolution also took place in the kitchen
Paul Bocuse and Michel Guérin (3-star chef at Eugénie les Bains) go to New York to “sell” French gastronomy. It was also at this time that Paul Bocuse imposed the service on the plate.