Julia Sammut came for a snack at home with Nicolas Rouvière.
In this new episode of the À la Mère de Famille podcast, Deborah and Steve welcome Julia Sammut and her guest Nicolas Rouvière to share a snack and talk with their mouths full about their careers and the L'Idéal adventure.
The founder of this Marseille grocery-guesthouse and her artistic director look back at their respective journeys, transmission, Mediterranean culture, a taste for stories, and a sense of beauty in service of goodness. They talk about products, places, aesthetics, and collective creation. Between memories and reflections, the conversation unfolds with curiosity and sincerity.
Sit back and let yourself be carried away by this authentic exchange.
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Julia Sammut
No matter what life she leads, Julia Sammut strives to discover delicious food before sharing it. After spending her childhood and adolescence in the Vaucluse with her mother, the Michelin-starred chef Reine Sammut, she moved to Paris to study law, but her curiosity and love of stories led her to journalism. It was at Le Fooding, at the time, that she decided to celebrate her taste for discovery and transmission before reconnecting with her Tunisian roots: the Mediterranean and the wonders it offers to taste. In 2016, she opened her ideal address in Marseille, the delicatessen - guesthouse, in the vibrant and popular Noailles district, L'Idéal. Why? Well, to bring to the attention of her (loyal) visitors something to make their taste buds and imaginations travel.
Nicolas Rouvière
The art of goodness has little depth without a sense of beauty. A grocery store is about products, the best, the most singular, it's a variety of possibilities, it's also a team. Above all, it's a place. A space where everyone should be able to find both the exotic and the beautifully ordinary. It's a faraway destination as much as a familiar home. This dual atmosphere was forged by artistic director Nicolas Rouvière for L'Idéal and Julia Sammut's project. A versatile designer, he also runs the publishing house Keribus, specializing in cooking. But not just any cooking, not just good recipes, but cooking that opens the way to delicious stories. Stories, great stories, always!
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Every month, Déborah Pham, a journalist, and Steve Dolfi, co-owner of Paris's oldest chocolate factory, host inspiring guests for afternoon tea in the secret dining room of the historic boutique. These are personalities we want to listen to and discuss the topic of transmission with. Each guest arrives with a companion, someone who matters, someone from whom they received influence or to whom they transmitted a certain vision of the world. For an hour, they talk about connections, memories, and what is transmitted without even thinking about it. An unfiltered conversation, with mouths full, because here, it's allowed.
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