Discover the Sauce Sessions
I must admit that when I first heard the idea of bringing musicians and kitchen chefs together, I thought it was a rather strange combination. Despite liking music and cooking, I didn't quite understand how one could benefit from the other. However, intrigued by the experiment I watched a few videos and I must confess that I liked the result! I'm talking about the Sauce Sessions, a fun format (surely even more fun to produce) runned by Sophie Rabeau and Mathilde Degorce-Dumas, founders of Sauce Blanche, the music and culinary talent curator that has been working to connect chefs and artists since 2018 innovating with creative events and content. In this way, Sauce Blanche has been producing since 2020 these sessions where artists are invited to perform in restaurant kitchens with a chef cooking his specialty.
Based in Paris, during December they left France for the first time to film in Berlin with artist Jackie Moontan at Küche 3, one of Paolo Pinkel’s kitchens.
Jackie Moontan is an artist difficult to describe. He is as poetic as he is absurd, who claims to be a moonman; his spaceship crashed somewhere in a Mississippi swamp and he’s been traveling this little blue planet ever since, writing songs about it’s little blue inhabitants. He is perpetually and dangerously flirting with kitsch, encapsulated by his love for satin shirts and bright coloured suits which he wears on stage during his Spectacular One Man Moon Man Karaoke Show Extraordinaire - as he calls it. Whatever he does on stage, whether it is dancing or falling off of it, he always seems to be saved by his love of self-mockery.
On the other hand, Paolo Pinkel is a Berlin bar where you can drink, eat and dance. With three kitchens, it was at Küche 3 where Sergio and Dorian invited Jackie Moontan for a very special Sauce Session at their modern Sicilian kitchen influenced by Berlin. In the session, while Jackie performed Butter, they cooked the different Parmigiana: a roasted aubergine, with home-made smoked Ricotta, different crisps, watercress and Datterini tomato cream.
Don`t miss upcoming releases from the Sauce Sessions by following their YouTube channel.
Cover photograph: Jackie Moontan by Sauce Blanche
