Maïté

Marie-Thérèse Ordonez (; 2 June 1938 – 21 December 2024), known as Maïté, was a French restaurateur, actress and television presenter. She is mostly famous for hosting long-running cookery shows on French television, including La Cuisine des Mousquetaires with Micheline Banzet-Lawton, from 1983 to 1997, and À table, from 1997 to 1999.

== Career == At the beginning of her career, Maïté worked as an announcer for the SNCF, France's national railway company: she was in charge of alerting railway workers with a trumpet before a train arrived, so that they could let it pass.