About me
A cook and a visual artist, in other words- an artist-cook.
I give cooking lessons from home, concoct culinary performances and artistic installations as-well as create new recipes. Today, I'd like to offer you the pleasure of tasting my lunches.
What is my culinary inspiration? Mostly cosmopolitan, a mixed grill and very globe trotterish, my geography has become very "gourmand": from my Egyptian Grand Mother's baklava to my Grand Father's South African "biltong", I naturally landed in Paris lured by its renown gastronomy and the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
And there's also... Pantelleria, a very small island, wild and volcanic, situated between Tunisia and the South of Sicily.
I know this island well. We have become friends over the seasons. The volcanic earth, the capers, the grapes, the incessant winds and its landscape visited by so many different populations rich in culinary traditions are a continuous form of inspiration.
A diamond hunt across the globe from a Flemish Grand Father, a great uncle who got gobbled up by the Sha of Persia's tiger, poetic dinners and musical chairs, tamed mosquitoes and foody parents (my Mother sold her tailored suit in order to be able to taste just one more time the lemon tarts of a reputable pastry chef before boarding the boat back home)- this is a brief resumé of fabulous matter that has nourrished me all along my life and that I transpose for you here in my kitchen.
