so I was born in 1986 I had
first imagined at the beginning of my
life I had like who would say the
baraka I was born Jewish but after
the worst carnage in the history of
humanity but years through priori
pay for me i was but woman
certainly but in France free country in peace
country of the lights of human rights
as we were taught at school
a nice rich green varied country where he
good life
I had landed in a loving family
and balanced I had seemed it
picked up the jackpot at roulette and
chance of the world and yet this vision
naive of my existence was early
to shatter when I saw
arise in the word of my entourage
a scary and terrible word the crisis
we all had the mouth to fill the crisis
economic and ecological crisis and
to the social crisis the European crisis
the crisis of terrorism the crisis of
refugees the crisis of employment the crisis
from ‘subprime’ the political crisis to the
consumer crisis
the climate crisis the crisis the child
that I was little by little
the evidence contrary to what
I had originally understood that
would not necessarily win win
so good I’m going to see apply the
good students lesson that I did and
I decided that the others were
not so much my problem I had
vigilance primarily on myself
capitalize on my saved assets
to ensure a proper retirement
I will not flourish as
taxpayer in my view plan y
make remarkable studies win
a lot of money not to be
victim of the economic crisis before
a perfect silhouette to walk
brilliantly towards a huge success
social and professional find a
handsome young guy funny rich smart
nice to ensure my happiness costs
what does it cost
only here I did not have more
soon to agree with
myself to attack the problem
from this angle that I found myself
facing a new crisis
pernicious paralyzing that I
certainly did not expect the crisis of
my so- called conscience indeed my
young consciousness was no longer able to
deny this unstoppable argument that if
I had the chance to be born months
in a country in peace
with a strong spirit
protesters dock a good
health insurance while my brothers
seemed little concerned by the notion of
subprime crisis and the
consumption but more by the crisis of
survival maybe it was
I also had homework and that
I was going to have to decide which role I
would stand in a world that would have
sense in march 2016 i’m sailing in the heart of
the crisis of the thirties in full crisis
refugees
my sister who lives in germany
send me a sos to tell me she
just crossed the road this is a
Syrian refugee couple who was doing
the sleeve
the couple had been taken care of the
watch in a reception center
but they were hungry yes he had the
time in 2016 in europe in a friendly country
exemplary in its management of the crisis
who invited them as 999 thousand
others to take refuge on his soil
in a reception center at I you
reassures
the center had wanted to feed them a
of course but oops with soup at
pork so here i will confess to you my
thought of the moment I thought ok I
know myself the overall level of the
German gastronomy and its cult for
boxing west there brad trost the
short currywurst for the pig but there
it still seems a little strong
of coffee
so I learn live on March 10
2016 the existence of a new crisis the
crisis of reception
I am chef so much so
tell you that this story of soup at
pig it lightly and heated me
a this moment
I wanted to cook with all my
heart for all these visitors against 1
who discovers the soil of a foreign country
that they have not always chosen to
repair my shame our shame I had
want to warm up to invite to my
table in my house in my refuge the
whole world I could not go up
this fixed idea of the head I had
want to cook for them is to
discover their history through prism
from their cooking the kitchen as a
universal language that would bring together
peoples then I speak of my dear me
of ideas to my friend and chef
elodie had and who tells me instantly
yes go ahead we do it and as we
both believe in a world where
love would be stronger than crises
and down we talked about our plans
to the people we love and we
are thus quickly find
surrounded by ten women
exceptional friends around the project
the refuge for the blow the stove for
refuge heat optimism is so born
the purpose of the association was to
federate to create link through
cooking between populations
welcoming and the people
welcomed in France and Europe to
to contribute through the gesture of
cook together has changed heavy and
there our lives are rocking and the new
story begins the first mission
of the stove was held here at large
synthe in august 2016 on canda
liners on the camp we have everything
immediately realized that sitting down
together together around a same
table to share the meal had not
never before was it was a
first challenge to bring people together on
this very individualistic place where the
people eat badly fast and in their corner
after only a few days we
have seen a change
of atmosphere on the camp people
were hardly more attentive anymore
respectful and we understood
the importance of this appointment
together around the
table during this first mission
we had the joy of welcoming a
sixty volunteers from
everywhere in France
they brought their energy they have
contributed to this change of dynamism
of the site without the pretext of cooking
most of our volunteers would not have
never set foot on a camp there
would never have met these men
women and children from elsewhere
today after three missions
humanitarian
we have we account for about
200 people who lent themselves to
dating game across the
cooking people always come out
very cheerful very emotional full of stories
and new sensations
and there is force to see one thing
the meeting between two human beings
seem to have a strip magical power
brawl all and especially the ideas
preconceived
the table promotes the movement of the
encounter is a place that cements is
a meeting place that play a role
fundamental
since the dawn of time in our
social and greedy societies
at the stove we mount workshops of
cooking on the sites and when we
let’s look up we watch cook
together to cook to let himself die
by these are gestures of trust
total we let ourselves die by the other
we rely on each other that’s good
there the roots of life when the
kitchen stove for the people
refugees, it is sometimes necessary to prove that
we are worthy of this trust he
have to convince them that they can
taste and enjoy dishes they
do not necessarily know they
can trust us that we
wants good without a second thought
free of charge these are notions that
have sometimes become very
foreign recently
we brought an audience of
non- professional refugees
cook present and serve their
dishes to an unprejudiced public during
of a music festival in belgium
you do not imagine how people
were upset as he was
proud
donatien a young refugee Cameroonian
had prepared a delicious couscous
the first day he came to me and
he told me you realize
the gentleman there he asked me
how I had prepared it
it’s amazing it’s our pride
see them take a central place
radiation because they are at their
because we helped them to
take up a challenge that involves a whole
public that we trust them we
helped them regain dignity
cooking is a job
learning and transmission is
a profession of gestures and pedagogy
we learn a lot from them
certainly a lot more than the
otherwise, because it teaches us
every morning the resilience the kitchen
chefs of the stove is a kitchen in
perpetual evolution makes history
of fusion meetings I would like you
talk about re bar which was the
cook baker on the body every
day they fashioned about 600 donkey
to feed other refugees
florent laden northern starred chef has
invited to spend a week of
internship in his gourmet restaurant
at the end of the week they put
set à la carte restaurant
denham with flanders flour from the
brake cut and natural leaven
is not it the perfect illustration of
the richness of integration
and not globalization
with elodie we have right now
wanted to see things big because
we love challenges and because we
think that the chalenge boosts the
creativity dynamism and envy
undertaking
when we are on mission we
cook between 200 and 500 meals per
day it is considerable for people
who are not professionally render
active actors of people in situation
Attendance attendants treat the
most of the time at best like
kids at worst like animals this
causes a recovery of self-confidence
which can go up to a change of
perspective for the future
well mustapha young refugee Kurdish
from iraq decided he did not want anymore
to go to England and that he was
ready to stay in France if we
we helped him get his papers
and he works today as
half-party leader in one of
double-star chef’s restaurants
akrame benallal in paris through the
stove we emit the wish that
the whole profession takes
aware of the role it has played in
our change of society
our job is a profession that can not
to play that in team a team is
a micro company that we can
choose to manage according to a system
virtuous or not the old model of a
terrorist leader must be
revolutionized by the new wave of
cooks who should prefer
mixed teams respect the parity
forget about a military system for
favor the whole benevolence the
co-creation and to go even more
far
I would even say that today cook
and eating are eminently acts
political both on the social level
but also on the environmental level
the profession can and must do
choice
we are currently going through the most
serious ecological crisis that history
is known
however we affirm we affirm that the
crisis of the home the crisis of
refugees are intrinsically linked
to this so called ecology crisis in
defining the dm of the stove he us
seemed obvious to promote a
engaged local organic cuisine craftswomen and
totally vegetarian
it’s a lot less cooking
energy-consuming that does not harm humans
or animals or the planet while
it’s not always easy to do
understand to make people understand
to cook without meat
may be more pleasant and durable than
to cook halal chicken certainly but
transgenic is fed to
antibiotics bayer like that is not
no longer always obvious to do
understand to a foreign audience in
situation of great precariousness that if
we all consume differently
world knows a lot less wars and
misery but we hold firmly
this spirit we aim for notions
news such as respect for
product
food waste also we
let’s work with products
from food recovery
so far the association has served ten
seven thousand meals revalue 3 tons
unsold that should have gone to
incineration does not know much
compared to 41.3 tonnes of unsold
go to the trash
every second in the world according to a
last report of the ademe but it is a
start us concerning the road will be
long
we hope and we deplore it
the mission of the stove is also
to be an active witness of the reception at
across europe and to carry a word
scene is optimistic through the
tastes and flavors she defends eh
well figure what we are
witnesses have until today it’s
from hospitality to wonderful
Belgian and French citizens yes
we are reassured to see that
overall civil society is
ready to act and take charge
the role of a motionless government
sick and insane then I do not you
not hide that there are some mornings a
little harder than others where the
anger takes precedence over trust and
where the desire to break everything and
deconstruct the world for better
save takes me by the throat it’s without
doubt the existential crisis that is
short after but then
I hear the voice of my father running
a little faster than the voice of my
little existence deep in
all the crises of life he has no
keeps repeating big optimistic he
there are always solutions
if you think it’s hopeless that
you have to keep looking and kill
discover them inch’allah
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