White and short hair, colored glasses, awarded to their outfits and a big smile: the trogne maracotte is recognizable among thousands. Or rather, recognizable by the millions of spectators who follow him every Wednesday in The best bakery In M6 with Cyril Lignac. The 14th season, presented by Laëtitia Milot, resumes this Wednesday, September 10. It will be the last for Mercotte.
From this program, Mercotte is the pet, therefore. However, do not trust appearances. Under affable melodies, the octogenarian is undoubtedly the most fearful jury of the candidates. And she knows it well, as explained Television news: “I think I was chosen for that, because I didn’t have my tongue in my pocket and said what I thought.”
Every week, the culinary blogger challenges fans cakes with technical evidence in which they must be reproduced identically, an unknown cake, of a recipe truncated by him.
Far from being a grandmother’s cake, Mercotte is also a hyperactive retiree. Known for his blog “La Cuisine de Mercotte”, the host of M6 turns throughout France according to culinary festivals and produces chronicles for France Bleu. An agenda occupied for the 83 -year -old pastry enthusiast. She will hang the apron after the next season. Not for tiredness, but “by decency.”
“I think you have to know how to stop on time. I have a lot of fun during the shooting, it is the summer camp. I am really delighted and happy to do the program and it is not exhausting, but, given my advanced age, I think it is a matter of ethics,” he told TV magazine.
If his face remains inseparable from the television competition of fans, Mercotte had not tried for the stove. He even trusts his blog that he didn’t even know how to cook an egg “when he married.
“Mercotte” or “Jacquotte”?
Good taste, however, has always had it and he comes from childhood. Jacqueline Pin, his real name, was born on September 28, 1942 in Aix -LES -Bains, surrounded by the Savoyard mountains. The mother’s orphan, her aunts are raised from her three years. “They were the age of being grandmothers,” he said Parisian.
In turn, they forge the taste of young children. “They cooked very well,” he says. I remember his very crispy atria, his bite to the queen of the home, chicken croquettes with Bechamel, fine seasoned meatballs with tomato sauce … “
A table art that is obviously difficult to separate. During his studies, Hipokhâgne, Institute of Political Studies of Grenoble and British license, prefers to “go to a star and take the first menu, instead of an unimportant restaurant, which costs so much.”
But, until now, cooking has never really interested it. Married to the age of twenty with André-Jean Mercorelli, a few months after his meeting on a tennis court, he decides to put himself in the stoves … when he is not on rally’s footprints. His spouse, a former paratrooper who has become a pilot, invites him to his various car races such as CO -Piloto. It was at her side that she takes her nickname of Mercotte, the contraction of Mercorelli and “Jacquotte”, nodded that she later fell into her husband.
Profession: Culinary Blogger
Dedicated to the education of her four children, Jacqueline has established small dishes of self -control, and does so, so much that she writes her first book with Monique Lansard, The new kitchen at your fingertips, 140 light recipes.
The sixties they spent, even embarked on a blogger race. “The Mercotte cuisine”, all in comics without MS, undertakes to make the recipes of pastry chefs accessible in 2005. He published several collections, became a columnist of France Bleu since 2009. Before being seen by M6.
Since 2011, Mercotte “has fun” together with Cyril Lignac, in the presentation of Best Pastry Chef. “It’s the summer camp,” he adds Television magazine. A good police duo, Bad Cop: the chef seems to laugh when cultivating an uncompromising image.
Fourteen years during, Mercotte, therefore, will have this role in the show program. Far from his house, he stays a whole month, to film, in Montfort l’Amaury in The Yvelines. A stimulating rhythm, but attempt, that he chose to stop in the next season … without giving up, however, to his other activities: “Retirement is impossible, it is a word that I do not know!”
Source: BFM TV
