Between Beyoncé and Jean Imbert, it all started with radishes. This Thursday, December 14, the winner of the third season of Top chef was invited on the show C to you from France 5. During his intervention, the head chefwho currently officiates at the unmissable Parisian palace Plaza Athénéewas asked about the friendships he maintains with stars. And not just any ones! Norbert Tarayre’s friend explained thathe was hired to work in the kitchen for one of Beyoncé’s tours in 2014. “I made him tomato water with radishes, he remembered. She asked to meet the boss, I didn’t know her, I was summoned, in quotes. And it was from this little tomato water, radish, and a little avocado that was born [cette amitié, ndlr]...”
The memory of this day seems to be engraved in the mind of Jean Imbert, who described the scene in a very colorful manner.. “I arrived, she was on a tear, an hour before putting on the outfits to perform at the Stade de France“, he said, with a smile on his lips. And this meeting was the first in a long series, which still continues today. “I saw them again recently and it’s an important friendship for me. It seems a bit celebrity, but it’s not at all. These are artists that I have the chance to see in album creation conditions […] and for me, who is in a creative field, that brings a lot.”
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Radishes with Beyoncé and cocktails with Robert De Niro
Beyoncé and Jay-Z are not the only celebrities with whom Jean Imbert has his habits ! always in C to you, the head chef explained that he often works in the filming kitchens of Robert de Niro. “After the screening of Scorsese’s film, we went for a quick bite to eat and he did something quite legendary to meexplained the former candidate of Top chef. He ordered his cocktail, which I won’t mention, but it was his legendary cocktail, that’s all he drinks. He thought mine was better, and he switched the lenses!“A surreal scene, which did not fail to bring a broad smile to Jean Imbert.
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