Lucie Berthier Gembara
Sep 8, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 11:05 AM
Sep 8, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 11:05 AM
Description
As native of Nantes, Lucie Berthier Gembara has been cooking since childhood, working alongside her chef grandfather. With him, she fished for cuttlefish in the Arcachon Basin, and ever since, the color black has been her culinary standard: that of the sepia ink with which, as a child, she used to ink rice or pasta. Later, her product-based cooking came to the fore with eminences such as Alexandre Mazzia in Marseille, before moving back to the Loire estuary to create her own cuisine. The name of her restaurant? Sépia, of course, where she creates colorful, head-on dishes from the ocean and the vegetable garden. This chef is so committed to eco-responsibility that she and her market gardener partner have launched a 14,000m² urban farm in the Nantes area.