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Cookery Master Classes
The Mas de Montet's Executive Chef , Marie Verdier offers lunchtime Cookery Master Classes during the weekday.
For classes in foie gras and truffle cooking , contact us to help you organize a private class. Limited to 4 participants.
Chef Marie Verdier has been elected a member of the "Toques du Périgord", which recognizes her for her excellence in regional Dordogne cuisine.
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Michel de Montaigne once said :"Ambition is not the vice of little people".
Head chef Marie Verdier's only vice is cooking superbly well. Her ambition is not for herself but for her diners at the elegant hotel restaurant at Mas de Montet, to be transported by the flavours, the colours, the textures of the Périgourdine specialities on their plates.
The daughter of Périgourdin parents, Marie was born and bred in one of the gastronomic centres of France, if not the world. A dietician by training Marie's culinary skills owe a great debt to her maternal grandmother Léontine and to her own mother Liline who ran a small restaurant in the countryside. Her memories of food from the kitchens of these two formidable women, coupled with her own innate ability to cook with passion and instinct are the secrets to her success as a chef. According to Marie, cooking is a collaborative effort and a labour of love, and she credits the team at Mas de Montet for their contribution. 'La cuisine est un partage. C'est une belle rencontre entre l'équipe du Mas de Montet,' says Marie.
Inspired by the great chefs of the French South-West like 3 Michelin-star chef Michel Guérard of "Les Prés d'Eugénie", her gastronomic creativity is guided by her own fine palate, her love of colours and taste. The magical setting of the hotel restaurant of the Château is another source of Marie's inspiration. 'L'endroit est magique; une belle source d'inspiration!' says Marie who has been awarded Les Toques du Périgord and membership into a select group of chefs in the Dordogne for their high quality of cooking and their use of local seasonal ingredients in their kitchens.
