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Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch is a French chef perhaps best known for her stint as the first female chef for the President of France.[1]

Personal life

Mazet-Delpeuch is a native of the Périgord region of France.[2]

Culinary career

Since the 1970s, Mazet-Delpeuch has been a culinary teacher,[2] and was noted as a pioneer of culinary tourism in France.[3] She eventually got the attention of Joël Robuchon, who recommended her to then French President François Mitterrand. She served as Mitterrand's personal chef from 1988 to 1990.[2] In that role, she cooked dinners for Mitterrand's family, as wells as guests such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher.[3]

10 years after her stint as Mitterrand's chef, Mazet-Delpeuch worked as a cook for a French research base in the Crozet islands for over a year.[4][2][5] She applied for the job after seeing an ad online, and despite being told they were not looking for a woman or someone over the age of 50 (Mazet-Delpeuch was 60 at the time), she got the job.[5]

Books

• Carnets de cuisine: du Périgord a l'Elysee[6]
• Ma cuisine, de l'Elysée à l'Antarctique (2016)[7]

Cultural depiction

• A character based on Mazet-Delpeuch, named Hortense Laborie, was portrayed by Catherine Frot in the 2012 film Haute Cuisine. In France, the film is known as Les Saveurs du Palais.[5]

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