Paul Marcon wins the Bocuse d’Or

France wins the Bocuse d’Or, ahead of Denmark (last year’s winner) and Sweden. Paul Marcon, 29, triumphs thirty years after his father, Régis Marcon, three-star chef at Saint-Bonnet-Le-Froid. Paul Marcon wins the golden statuette, 30 years after his father Régis Marcon. The young French chef, who is no stranger to competitions, won over the jury by highlighting his region’s gastronomic heritage with a plate that combined the required products (celery, lean meats and lobster) with green apples and chartreuse. As for the platter theme, Paul winked at his origins by using mushrooms in all the preparations on his platter. France thus completed the double, also winning the prize for best commis thanks to Camille Pigot. “It’s a great source of pride and emotion,” said a moved Paul Marcon , “and a reward for two years’ work and more, because it’s all the experience of previous competitions, the experience of life, of a career, of being a chef, that is paying off today. This is not the kind of competition you enter on a whim. I put a lot of things in place. We came up against things, we made mistakes, we got back up, we got up again. And today, here we are!” he enthused.