ALET_CUBAT_FLYER_VFStill too little known in Occitania and on the Limouxin, land of gastronomes and bon vivants, Pierre CUBAT was nevertheless a major historical figure.
Born in Alet-les-bains in 1844, of modest but intelligent and hard-working origin, Pierre CUBAT , left for the capital after his apprenticeship as a pastry cook to perfect his skills in the greatest houses. He thus officiated at the Café Anglais during the Universal Exhibition, frequented by the whole of Paris, and he would be the actor of a remarkable event that went down in history as the Dinner of the Three Emperors.
Thanks to his talent and an extraordinary career path, he would rise to the rank of the greatest chef of his time, which would take him from Alet to St. Petersburg, where he would be appointed head chef at the Russian court in the service of the last three czars, Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II.
Attached to his roots and concerned with valorizing the products of his territory, Pierre CUBAT served at the table of the Tsars the lamb of the Pays de Sault and the mineral water of Alet.
Died in 1922, his death elevated him to the pantheon of great cooks when the culinary academy of France, which defends and promotes the values of French Gastronomy, awarded him one of the fifty chairs bearing the names of the most illustrious cooks of all time.
