Being a large family, they often split up when they travel, with half going by car or plane and the other half by train. It was Oddur, 50, who first fell for Turin, somewhat by chance. LIBERAL ARTS The dining room features a midcentury painting found in Bordeaux. “Mimi understood early that the most beautiful culinary book has been written by nature.”
“I love the simplicity of her cuisine-generous and respectful of the seasons,” Passard says. “He is able to make vegetables gastronomic,” Mimi says, adding that in the early ’00s, Passard inspired people like herself to move to the country or grow a vegetable garden. One of the chefs they met during that time was Alain Passard, of the three-Michelin-star Arpège, whom they visit on trips to Paris. Though the project was put on hold, it served as a foundation for Mimi’s career shift into cooking and writing.
Together they spent nearly two years photographing some of the city’s best restaurants, interviewing the chefs in their kitchens and absorbing their expertise. Before they moved to the Médoc, the Thorissons lived in Paris, where they started to write a food guide. “I always knew about the food, all the Barolo, brasato, vitello tonnato,” she recalls.Ī former model, Mimi learned her trade by eating, cooking and writing and by befriending chefs. Thanks to her aunt, Mimi says, she had a jump start on the local cuisine. She credits her interest in cooking to her mother’s sister, Francine, whose husband was from Piedmont. Mimi, 47, grew up in Hong Kong, but she spent every summer in her mother’s hometown in the south of France, and she has made a name for herself by celebrating an idyllic vision of French country cuisine.
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