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