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.
Brittany
Oct 12, 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
Oct 13, 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
Oct 14, 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
Oct 15, 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
Oct 16, 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.
