Edwina de Charette founded the leather goods brand La Contrie. She is the mother of 12-year-old Audrey.
Your Proustian madeleine?
My grandmother's rum baba, which she made in a round mold with a hole in the middle that she filled with her whipped cream and glazed with a sweet jelly.
Your favorite family (besides yours and ours)?
The Ingalls family from Little House on the Prairie! But am I just fantasizing?
Where do you have lunch as a family?
I love American-style brunches at home with everything: bacon, scrambled eggs, beans, French toast, and maple syrup.
What does an afternoon snack with the family look like at your house?
An afternoon snack with the family means homemade cakes. I like making small individual cakes rather than cutting slices of cake, or I make snack cakes.
A really fun activity with the children?
I have a soft spot for Fimo clay, which I find fun and allows you to make lots of different things.
A recipe you can make in no time?
Chocolate mousse
How do they pull your leg?
I never let anyone pull my leg.
They make a big deal out of it when...?
She decided I wasn't allowed to go out.
A favorite product from "À la Mère de Famille"?
The caramel-filled shortbread
A gift for "À la Mère de Famille" for her 255th birthday?
A giant chocolate cake car decorated with Smarties
As Annie Cordy used to say, "Cho KaKakao, if I give you chocolate, what will you give me?"
It depends on the chocolate.
