In September 2021, Emilie Besse left a photo of her in black and white. Smiling, the 38-year-old journalist strikes a pose … in a Ferrandi blouse, named after the large hotel school which trains the gastronomic elite in Paris. A month later, on October 23, she recounts, during a break, this dream that she finally realizes. “Proud. In this picture, there is a lot of fatigue. Very small eyes and big circles, mixture of short nights asking myself too many questions, lack of sleep because my kids who never woke up the night before, are doing it now and I would like to think that it has nothing to do with it my new life, she says. Not too bad, because staying up for 7 hours when you’ve been used to sitting in front of your computer for years, it’s a bit like having a 33-ton roll over you every morning. Having said that, this week was really getting better. It seems that it is a fold to take.“
Fatigue, but also and above all a “smirk wondering if she’s really serious about being too happy because the teacher told her that her sauce was ‘pretty’“. And to continue:”This little smile that remembers that two days ago a parent from the school told him that he was going to sell his restaurant and it unfolded a whole story in my head. That little smile that remembers that to the question: ‘What do you want for your birthday honey?’, My daughter replied ‘to have dinner with you at the restaurant’. That little smile that knows that cooking is passed on, and that, nicely, that’s probably what is happening.“