2024 - Maïté, Renowned Chef, Dies at 86: A Tribute to Her Culinary Legacy

It's the end of a French cooking legend. Maïté bowed out on the night of Friday 20 to Saturday 21 December, BFMTV reports. This woman had become popular thanks to her show “La Cuisine des Mousquetaires”. A cult scene from this program was widely shared on social networks where Marie-Thérèse Ordonez (Maïté's real name) stunned an eel with a stick before cutting it in half with her bare hands. Some political figures, starting with Emmanuel Macron,…

VIDEOS - The great figure in cooking shows died on the night of Friday to Saturday, at the age of 86. An opportunity to review the sequences that made him famous.

With her real name Marie-Thérèse Ordonez, Maïté animated “La Cuisine des Mousquetaires” on FR3 Aquitaine from 1983 to 1991, then on FR3 and France 3 from 1991 to 1997.

Maïté delivered her recipes, which are reputed to be generous and undietetic, on television, on France 3 Aquitaine, and then on the channel's national network from 1983 to 1997.

Known for her program “La Cuisine des Mousquetaires” on France 3, Maïté, whose real name is Marie-Thérèse Ordonez, died on the night of Friday to Saturday.

Maïté, the famous TV cook died on the night of Friday to Saturday at the age of 86....