Jean Imbert / Instagram
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PEOPLE – Heartbroken. This Friday, January 1, chef Jean Imbert released a moving post on Instagram. In the first photograph, in black and white, taken by Nikos Aliagas, we see him in the company of his “Grandma”. On the second, the duo are captured years earlier, during the childhood of the future winner of “Top Chef”.
A sober way of announcing the sad news of the disappearance of the old lady, whom the followers of the cordon bleu knew so well. Indeed, the chef accompanies these two photos with a text saluting the memory of the old lady: “Since yesterday, I cry like a child (…) I look at the photos, the videos on repeat, I remember each remember, every Christmas, every Sunday at your house. ”
“I know I became a cook because of you. No one in the family did this job, but for you cooking was not a job, it was your DNA ”, he adds. “You gave me this passion, the desire to make it my life rather than a job.”
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A moving message that you can find in full above and that Jean Imbert concludes with a touching “I love you”.
His “grandma” is indeed a great inspiration for the media chef, who notably published a book of recipes transmitted by his grandmother. In an interview with Figaro, Jean Imbert said that the nonagenarian cooking only on instinct, without ever weighing anything or watching the cooking times, he had had to taste all the dishes in order to find the faithful recipes of the pot-au-feu or the chicken with rice.
A star and inspiration “Granny”
In March 2019, the cook had even gone even further since he opened “Mamie par Jean Imbert”, a restaurant located in the 16th arrondissement and again inspired by his grandmother’s cuisine.
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On social networks, Jean Imbert frequently put “Granny” in the spotlight, whether by filming her cooking advice, showing common preparations and even showing her alongside celebrities like Pharrell Williams, with whom the grandmother had been able to cook.
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“We always say that we realize things when it is too late, when we can no longer say them, when we can no longer do them. With you, this is not the case: you made me experience all the things a little boy can dream of with his grandmother ”, writes Jean Imbert in particular in his text. A tribute to the height of the strong relationship that united the cook and his grandmother.
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