Top chef Season 12 will air from Wednesday February 10, 2021. Good news for all viewers of this great cooking competition reserved for professionals and created in 2010. The shooting of these new episodes was indeed disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced the production to postpone the recording of 'one week, because four of the show's 15 candidates had contracted the coronavirus. A setback that did not prevent Barbara Pompili, Minister of Ecological Transition, to participate in this new season of the program presented by Stéphane Rottenberg, as reported by the JDD on Sunday January 31, 2021. But chefs Philippe Etchebest, Michel Sarran, Paul Pairet and Hélène Darroze will not, however, taste the cuisine of the 45-year-old politician …
Barbara Pompili will only make an appearance in one of the events: the creation of a dish called the Oil Slick, which aims to denounce ecological disasters and which the minister will taste in the gardens of the Ministry of Ecological Transition. Barbara Pompili, who took the opportunity to make a speech about food waste and short circuits, is now held incommunicado, "both on the candidates present and on the dishes made", specifies the JDD.
The other star chefs who will be present in Top chef season 12
Other public figures will also make an appearance this year: world-class chefs who all have three Michelin stars like Gienn Viel, from the restaurant l'Oustau de Baumanière, in Baux-de-Provence, Anne-Sophie Pic, owner of the gourmet restaurant Maison Pic in Valence, Pierre Gagnaire (who regularly participates in the program) for his main restaurant on the street Balzac in Paris or Kei Kobayashi, the first three-star Japanese chef in Paris. Exceptional guests who should make the fifteen candidates want to give their all to succeed David Galienne, from the team of Hélène Darroze, the winner of the last edition.
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