Dietmarfeb2018
ETOILES
Cette mode de nouvelle cuisine
Une grande assiette, petites bouchée
Inodore
Grand effort
Pour y trouver la petite aubergine
Et à la fin de l’exclusive menu
Grand' faim
A cause des portions menues
M. Paul, partisan d’une autre philosophie
Retourne au bon vieux goût
Cardons, salsifis,
Demi-deuil poulet de Bresse
Pas peur de beurre, de crème épaisse
Chez Brazier, la Mère, d’abord la plonge
Parmi casseroles, passoires et poêles
Apparaissent bientôt les premières étoiles
Au firmament de Collonges
Qui brillent.
Illuminent le monde culinaire
A la gloire de la France
Légion d'honneur
Sa soupe VGE légendaire
Le Chef vient de partir
Ses étoiles avec toute leur brillance
Ne s’éteignent pas après sa mort
Elles continuent à briller
Éclatant, fort
Leur lumière se reflète dans sa rivière
La Saône
Sur les toits de sa ville
Lyon
In time, as a backlash against nouvelle cuisine developed, Mr. Bocuse put some distance between himself and the movement. He referred snidely to “mini-portions on maxi-plates” and at one point dismissed the movement as “a joke.
New York Times, JAN. 20, 2018
STARS
La nouvelle cuisine was once in fashion
Big plate, minimum passion
If you’d the choice, just let it be
Or trying hard
To find a falsify with wasabi
And at the end of the banquet
Got up hungry
Would like to eat a whole baguette
Paul had a different point of view
Another taste, another goût
Apprenticeship in local restaurants
He knows already what he wants
Seduce the eye, please the palate
Cooking from another planet
Poached a truffled chicken from the Bresse
Soup foie gras with watercress
Don’t be afraid of cream and butter
Stuffed sea brass with lobster
Like lord’s supper
Soon bright new stars arose
At Michelin’s firmament
Forty years long permanent
Illuminating the culinary world
First one, then two, then three
In Collonges, his restaurant
More for la bourgeoisie
Gourmet temple to France’s glory
A long lasting story
Which is not over yet
After the famous chef’s
Ashes have been scattered in the Saône
The river of his life
Reflect the stars
And his town: Lyon