Chef des Chefs: Kremlin

Chef des Chefs is an elite club composed of 40 highly distinguished chefs cooking for the world’s most powerful heads of states. Preparing daily meals and sumptuous feasts for special government receptions, they live a life of both privilege and inconsiderable pressure. They are ambassadors of their country’s cuisine and have the crucial role to meticulously create an atmosphere that will favor diplomacy and political negotiations.

Today we meet Jérôme Rigaud, a 36 year old French chef who has followed an unconventional path all the way to the Kremlin in Moscow, a palace of majestic grandeur that once housed the Russian tsars and today is the home of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The Kremlin is a highly defended fortress carefully guarded from the public, and Chef Rigaud must work according to the strict rules of the well-established Russian system where security is the number one priority. Accompany Rigaud through the highs and lows of his demanding yet exceptional job as the personal cook of President Medvedev at the Russian Kremlin.