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Maïté died at the age of 86. If she had given up her apron years ago, she left her mark with her human warmth and her local cuisine. She was not forgotten this Thursday, during a moving funeral in the presence of her loved ones in the region of her heart.
A thousand people gathered for Maïté, a very symbolic word pronounced by her granddaughter in the middle of the ceremony: “Adishatz”
Those close to Maïté said goodbye to the figure of “local” cuisine on French television. at the nursing home in the town of Rion-des-Landes, was honored during a moving funeral in the presence of a thousand people, reports the local press. According to Southwestthe village of Rion-des-Landes saluted, this Thursday, December 26, 2024, the figure of the commune, Maïté, who brought local cuisine to life on television. Family, relatives, but also anonymous people living in the area came in large numbers to say goodbye in Gascon to Maïté, “adishatz“, as one of his two granddaughters delicately did during her speech.
While a photo of Marie-Thérèse, known as Maïté, in an apron in a kitchen, accompanied the coffin in a filled church, the ceremony was able to count on the moving words of the priest. “God will serve you“, declared the priest who officiated for the ceremony after confiding that “cooking is divine when it creates a bond between people“. The emblematic and warm personality of the PAF has joined. A former chef of France 3 who had highlighted the stove expert told her: “Dear Maïté, you will be able to enter the kitchens of paradise. The angels are in for a treat. We will miss you. It is absolutely impossible that we forget you.“
In this Saint-Barthélémy church, the Basque singer Michel Etcheverry sang this Thursday morning The Dacquoise in front of the thousand people who came to pay tribute to the star of The Kitchen of the Musketeers. His granddaughter spoke to pay tribute to his memory: “She cooked to cheer us up. [Je suis] so grateful to have been with you. Eat, drink in his honor”she concluded.
Maïté, between resilience and human warmth
“For me, the cuisine of the Mousquetaires is the cuisine of miracles“, affirmed Maïté in the 1980s. “I was nothing, nothing, nothing. I left school at 14, I was a worker, a woman like everyone else. Even less than everyone else and with this new life, I went from rooster to donkey“.
His honeymoon with television ended in the late 1990s after quarrels within the L team.a Kitchen of the Musketeers. Retired in her native village, the one who lost son and husband in less than ten years had definitively abandoned the small screen. In 2015, his restaurant was placed in liquidation. His granddaughter Camille followed in his footsteps by becoming a cook, participating in the television show in 2018. In 2023, the media News Landes had indicated that Maïté was suffering from a “neurodegenerative disease“.
