Bon appetit: Gérard Depardieu's Europe

45min

Documentary

Gérard Depardieu is one of France's greatest actors. His lifelong passions are cinema, cuisine and encounters. 'Bon Appetit' is a unique TV show where Depardieu plunges into a journey through different European regions (Tuscany, Campania, Bavaria, Brittany, Scotland, Spain...) looking for its famous local specialties, identity and history.

Episodes

Cast

Brittany

1. Brittany

45min

12th Oct 2015

In Finistère, around Morlaix, Carantec, Lanilis, Gérard Depardieu and Laurent Audiot set out to meet the products, to tell us about cider, to deliver the secret of sourdough, or the history of salted butter, and to cultivate these magical moments that come and go with the flow.

Scotland

2. Scotland

45min

13th Oct 2015

Accompanied by his friend the chef Laurent Audiot, Gérard Depardieu shares his love of good food during a gastronomic journey in Europe. In this episode, the two friends discover the wild Isle of Skye, its scampi, its Highland cows, its whisky and its soaw sheep.

French Basque Country

3. French Basque Country

45min

14th Oct 2015

Accompanied by his friend the chef Laurent Audiot, Gérard Depardieu shares his love of good food during a gastronomic journey in Europe. Today, they travel through the Basque country, stopping at a Kintoa pig farm, tasting Ossau-Iraty and meeting a pepper producer in Itxassou, where they meet up with Edouard Baer.

North Italy

4. North Italy

45min

15th Oct 2015

If it is true that French gastronomy is incredibly rich, it is in Italian simplicity that Gérard Depardieu finds himself most at home. This cuisine of poverty is based on products of unparalleled flavor. With his friend, the starred chef Laurent Audiot, they meet olive oil and wine producers in Siena and Petroio, in Tuscany, before setting off to discover Parma and its ham, then Alba, home of the white truffle...

South Italy

5. South Italy

45min

16th Oct 2015

Laurent Audiot takes his friend Gerard to Naples. The two hedonists also go to the island of Ischia, where curious rabbits reside, and then travel the Amalfi Peninsula, from Cetara to Gragnano, from mozzarella to anchovies, enjoying the colors, the smells and the encounters. Some products have helped save lives, such as the Amalfi lemon and its vitamin C, which cured sailors of scurvy, or sanguinaccio, a post-war dessert for malnourished children, in which chocolate hides pig's blood.

First air date

12th Oct 2015

Last air date

21st Oct 2016

Status

Returning Series

Type

Documentary

Original language

fr

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