Follow the coloured chalk lines and unravel Bernhard Willhelm’s colourful maze of friends and budding cooks, in this DIY spread in NºB. Posing 15 questions each to seven friends (even his mum), the article shines with intimate moments and an obscure window into each different personality, and what comforts them in the kitchen.
From world famous French chef Paul Bocuse to the local Antwerp fast-food restaurant manager, from avant-garde design duo BLESS to Bernhard’s own mum, the characters each proffered a recipe from their own expertise – be it as rudimentary as As Four’s 1,2,3,4 coffee-making steps, as luxurious as Monsieur Bocuse’s elaborate Pot au Feu, or as traditional and wholesome as Rosemarie Willhelm’s traditional German cheese dumplings.
Ludivine Billaud’s softly colourful graphic interpretations of each recipe are accompanied by a few brief answers to the questionnaire, that support the nature of each entity. Whether it be the collective sterility of As Four and their caffeine issues, the conservative and routine perfection of Paul Bocuse, or the homeliness of Rosemarie Willhelm and Ann Demeulemeester’s husband Patrick Robyn in their respective cotton blouse and dressing gown, we glimpse a charming new side of each fashion and cultural entity.
Questionnaire
01. What do you wear when you are cooking?
02. Do you change clothes after preparing a meal?
03. Do you listen to music when you are cooking?
04. Do you use a cookery book?
05. Which dishes do you prepare and prefer?
06. Do you like desserts? Which ones?
07. Or do you prefer first courses?
08. Are you vegetarian? Why or why not?
09. Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
10. Which garment do you associate with the dish you have chosen?
11. Do you drink a glass of wine or a glass of water when cooking?
12. What about setting the table? Is it important?
13. Do you eat in the kitchen or in the dining room?
14. Do you invite unexpected guests to share the meal?
15. For whom do you cook (friend, child, husband, family, yourself)?
Rosemarie Willhelm’s “Allgäur Käsespätzle”
01. When cooking I like to wear a tishirt or a cotton blouse, easy to wash.
And I always wear a cotton apron.
As Four “Coffee”
05. We As Four do not know. We are never cooking but we love music allllways.
06. No, we As Four have no kitchen.
Alix Browne’s “Toast”
08. I’m a huge fan of desserts, especially tarte tatin with vanilla icecream – which I have enjoyed immensely in many restaurants but have never made myself. Veronique Branquinho has promised to come to New York and make a tarte tatin from scratch, but I’m still waiting!
Patrick Robyn’s “Breakfast”
02. My activities in the kitchen are restricted to preparing breakfast (in dressing gown), feed the dogs, make flower arrangements, clear and clean.
07. Bread and cheese of course.
Paul Bocuse’s “Pot au feu”
02. I wear a slip, shirt, black trousers, a cooks’ jacket and a traditional white apron.
(en effet, the same type of clothing since 1942.)
BLESS SauerkrautnudeIn
06. Our cooking is based on experiments and advice.
Emergency help by phone from our boyfriends/parents occurs.
08. All of them: the richer, the better.
09. On top of it.
Dave Vanderveken (manager of Quick, fastfood restaurant in Antwerp)
Wokked fried chicken with fruit.
06. I prefer a dessert and my favourite is banana split with hot chocolate.
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