
And also because everyone has their own idea of Édouard.Īt the start of last summer, a Twitter user posted this extract from one of the cult episodes of Burger Quiz in which, in front of an (almost) poked-faced Gérard Darmon and Chabat, Edouard launched into a comedic panegyric of a wizened, caricatural Darmon.

⏤Let me tell you – it isn’t easy to write about Édouard, because Édouard is capricious, whimsical, imaginative: every word counts and there are approximately 10-15 ideas in just one of his phrases, said in that voice that we love, with that deepness to it. For me, it’s the topside that I want, one of the choicest cuts.” Yes – Édouard’s cuisine is simple and imaginative, and political debate does not joke around with the reality of a hot stove. ‘But what cut of beef, what type of steak?’ Serrault says back. “Carel was attacking Serrault about the cost of living, the price of steak. ⏤Édouard has already gone off again about a Pierre Tchernia film in which Michel Carrault and Roger Carel meet in a hot televised political debate, parodic and yet so true.

It’s never just “you’re with me or against me” with Édouard, but you have to share a certain understanding of life, of pleasure, of emotion, of attention to others and an absolute necessity for the imagination… We would like to spend many hours at a time with Édouard, keel over, with that kind of hopeful joy, be swept away in those delicate, hilariously funny improvisations, be carried away with his memories and his eyebrows which become a circumflex to remind us of certain values, a few principles which you don’t joke about, under pain of losing his friendship. ⏤We are one and the same: all the generations muddled together. And I stuff it with garlic bread rather than bouquet garni.” Whilst I take notes, Édouard laughs, with that laugh of his, disarming, overwhelming, joyous, poetic…
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You have to know how to pre-heat your oven, and I rub the chicken with olive oil.

More just ways of cooking the chicken or the fish. And I was getting more and more into it, whilst I was trying out this kind of family life.” Has he got a speciality? “No. Last July, Édouard Baer rented a house in the South for his daughter, his partner, his friends.All of a sudden, came the question: “But who will cook? Myself and the others.
