Star chef Tim Mälzer reports on his crazy experiences in fine dining. Charles and Diana also played a role.
At 53 years old, Tim Mälzer can look back on an impressive career as a chef, TV star and cookbook author. He now reveals in the NDR’s “deep and clear” talk that he also had to experience some unpleasant things. The then royal couple King Charles III (75) and Lady Diana (1961-1997) also played an indirect role.
Shocking descriptions in the NDR talk
Mälzer reports on shocking experiences that took place in the 1990s before his big breakthrough as a TV chef and restaurant owner. During this time, after training at the InterContinental Hotel in Hamburg, he worked as a chef at the posh Ritz Hotel in London. According to his descriptions, the fact that he quit the prestigious job after a relatively short time had something to do with the inhumane working conditions – and with a dinner for the British royals.
In the NDR talk show, Tim Mälzer reports on massive experiences of violence behind the scenes: “Next to me, someone was burned with a hot knife because he didn’t peel the foie gras quickly enough. I was there myself when someone was kicked in the kitchen by six people because he was getting on our nerves so much. We were racist, sexist, we were everything. It was subterranean. We physically attacked mentally handicapped people. I was an accomplice, just because I watched.”
Termination after dinner for Lady Di and Prince Charles
The straw that finally broke the camel’s back was a meal for the British royal family, “back then with Di and Charles and all that.” After the strenuous cooking routine, the leading “pen pusher” “made the head chef look like a pig” in front of the entire team and humiliated him to such an extent that he ended up lying on the floor crying and wetting himself.
After this experience, Mälzer thought to himself: “Woah, I don’t think this is my cup of tea anymore.” So the next day he went to the head chef and resigned.
Afterwards, Mälzer stayed in London for only a short time, working there for the Italian cooking legend Gennaro Contaldo (75), among others, and then returned to Germany to pursue his further career there.
Source: Stern
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