An editorial by François Parveau, 04 and Hsiu-Ling Fan, 03 - associated creators (Taiwan).
“We feel strongly attached to the school that has allowed us to realize all of our dreams and it is also there that we met…! But that wasn’t included in the training program!
Concretely, the name “Paul Bocuse” helps a lot. It incarnates the idea that people have of French cooking. This has been very helpful.
After that, it is in the personal way of considering cooking that one can set ones self apart from the others… Cooking is similar to acting in a theater: there is a table, this is the stage, and the dish is the main character. The meal is created and put on the stage. It is sensual. Just one piece of advice, open your eyes and look around, you will find everything that you need in this school!”
> “He recipe for success” François Parveau and Hsiu-Ling Fan
François and Hsiu-Ling live in a residential neighborhood, located in a little patch of greenery, in the heart of Taipei. It is in their luxurious apartment that they have been working together for the past few months. Hsiu-Ling, 36 years old, is Taiwanese. François, 28, is French. Today they are married and it is at the Paul Bocuse Institute that they met...
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> “IPB’s first Taiwanese student” Ying-Chi Liu
35 years old, Ying-Chi Liu works in the Pasadena Restaurant in Kaohsiung in Southern Taiwan where she was born. However this was not the path that she had initially chosen…
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> “From a dream to France” Chia-Ching Chiang
At the end of her third year in Hotel and Restaurant management at the Paul Bocuse Institute, Chia-Ching already feels melancholic because “three years here, that does something to you!”...
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> “I am always unsatisfied” Jun-Jun HUANG
The word is out: Are you looking for a perfectionist? Ask Jun-Jun. Whim has no place in her life: she is boiling over with projects, catches each and every opportunity, every experience helps to model her future. At 21, her life is in front of her and she is charging...
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> “IPB in 3 words? Form, taste and heart…” Shin-Chen PU
Shin-Chen is 30 years old and cooking is her life “passion”. But when she started, at 20, it was more or less, as she says, “just a job to put bread on the table”. “It happened just like that” she added. To listen to her, it seems easy, and yet...
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> “It is hard to be a woman in the kitchen!” Yen-Chi PAÏ
Yen Chi is discrete, seems very serious, almost authoritarian…But make her smile once, just once, and there you will understand that in the kitchen as elsewhere, everything is a question of sensibility. She is exquisitely sensitive…
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