Paris will need to serve 40,000 meals each day for the 15 days of the Summer Games in Paris, and then turn around and serve athletes for another 15 days for the Paralympics. To accomplish this, Olympic organizers have assembled a team of 200 chefs to prepare more than 13 million meals. The "biggest restaurant in the world" will be headquartered at the Cité du Cinéma film studio complex in Saint-Denis, just outside Paris, while the meals themselves will be served at the Olympic Village and at more than a dozen sporting venues. All this activity is supervised by Hélène Defrance, French bronze medalist turned nutritionist.
While the athletes are coming from all over the world, the food is not. The Paris games are focused on sustainability practices, and therefore all eggs, milk, and meat will be locally-sourced, and 25% of all the food served will be produced within 250 kilometers of Paris. But that doesn't mean the cuisine is all French, Athletes will have their pick of dishes from around the globe. Meet the superstar chefs who will prepare foods for the Paris Olympics and read what they bring to the games at BBC Travel.
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