There's only one step between a mobile kitchen and a bivouac!

At the beginning of July, I embarked on this slightly crazy adventure, which was a far cry from the fortnight of cooking at the château I'd just experienced with two extraordinary groups of around thirty Americans. I'll tell you more about it later 😉

In short! So I joined the Transition Bivouac organized by Normandie Équitable on July 8 for four days of crazy adventure.

It has to be said that my encounter with the association dates back to 2010, when I was setting up my CSR consultancy. As a result, this adventure with the Néqui team was an obvious choice for my young company, Cuisine la Pérégrine.

So off I went with my pots and knives. I was going to wander from stage to stage, feeding morning, noon and night the sixty participants who had come by bike.

What did I learn from this fantastic transition event?

🍆 What have I learned from setting up my kitchen at the foot of a market gardener's greenhouses, in an eco-place or even in one of the Chauffer dans la Noirceur festival?

🥔 What did I learn about purchasing the quantities of vegetables, cheese, bread and all other foodstuffs, in each farm around the various stages of the bivouac, needed for the 600 vegetarian mouths to be fed?

🥕 What did I learn from running a culinary workshop every day, with "bivouackers" of all ages, while respecting the imperatives of the other activities scheduled at each arrival?

🥒 What did I learn from the missed speed bumps with my refrigerated trailer that caused me to spill 10kg of flour and 90 eggs on its floor?

🥜 What have I learned from "get up 5am - go to bed 10:30pm" days?

I learned:
- Strengthen my ability to adapt to any location and trust my intuition to be in the right place at the right time.
- To cook without wasting anything, leaving room for the unexpected to create a new recipe.
- To meet, exchange and share in all humility: I'm not a chef, I'm a cook!
- To let go, because we always learn something from setbacks: they enable us to overcome our fears by experiencing them.
- To give love...and I received a lot of it!