Page 84 - Danir_Arsbok2024_ENG_Digital

84

MARION PETERSON, EMERGING COOKING SOLUTIONS

Others’ fire,
my passion.

Some people know exactly what they want to do and what they want to work
with. Others take on life with a constant “why”. A question that, at regular intervals,
challenges one’s existence and what one does. Now Marion Peterson knows exactly
what she wants to do and work with but before that came curiosity and a “why”.
It was a thorough preparation for where she is today.

Marion was born in the USA, but she and her worked with architects and, during certain periods,
parents moved to Paris in the late 1960s. They as a translator, where she translated scripts for the
arrived in the midst of burning student revolts, and film and TV industry. She also worked with American
there was widespread anti-American sentiment in companies in France, where she acted as a kind of
the French capital at that time. But that didn’t stop cultural support and a resource that lowered cultural
Marion and her parents from creating a life there. barriers and created a bridge over cultural and
They quickly acclimatised, and Marion has lived in language differences.
France for most of her life.
But a constant in Marion’s professional life has
“It was quite tough to come to Paris as an eight- been her career as an actor. From the age of 20, she
year-old. We Americans were not particularly popu- has played in many films and TV productions. It has
lar in Paris in the late sixties, but we found our place, been a long, extensive, and successful career, mainly
and I blended in well at school,” says Marion. in France. A career that lasted over 20 years.

Marion grew up in France, where she spent four Today, she is one of three co-founders of Emer-
years studying architecture and three years study- ging Cooking Solutions in Zambia. An idea that was
ing literature. After graduation, she has sometimes born during a trip to India.