A passion that gradually sets in but does not please her mother, actress Nicole Courcel, who already did not see the story of her daughter and the photographer with a very good eye. “As I had made my debut in photojournalism, she dreamed of me as a great reporter, a sort of conquering Amazon, like her. So, when she saw me becoming a woman in the kitchen for a man who, moreover, had dissuaded me from pursuing photojournalism, she did not understand“, she recalls today.
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But the actress, who sadly passed away in 2016, ended up accepting her daughter’s passion: “Afterwards, when she saw that I was doing TV and writing books, she relaxed“. A confidence in her culinary gifts that she acquired over time, and that she owes in part to her ex-sister-in-law, a great journalist: “The day when Anne-Marie Périer, who ran the magazine She and impressed me a lot, told me that I had bluffed her, I allowed myself to launch“.
Today, she tries to transmit this passion to her children, Hadrien, 9 years old and Gaïa, 6 years old, by trying to make them understand that travel and cooking are linked. “I got them used to home cooking, yes, even if they sometimes eat other things, especially in the canteen where they go once a week. (…) And above all, I introduce them to travel, because everything is linked. Every year, I go face to face with each of them in a big city in Europe. (…) Combining history and cooking is a good way to allow children to approach the culture of a country“, she concludes, radiant.