Bon appetit: Gérard Depardieu's Europe

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Laurent Audiot and Gérard Depardieu cross the Mediterranean to immerse themselves in Moroccan cuisine and its products. After visiting an orange grove, they arrive in Fez for a walk in the medina. They discover the klhei, dried and seasoned cow strips, and also generous stalls of spices, olives and pigeons. They finish with a big meal with lamb mechoui.

Gérard Depardieu and Laurent Audiot introduce us to Bavarian products and the Bavarian soil: Simmental beef in the pastures of Samerberg, pretzels in Bichl, mushrooms picked in the undergrowth near Suttensee, sauerkraut, the famous weisswurst (white sausage)... They take advantage of their stay to meet a distiller who prepares schnapps.

Mediterranean and at the crossroads of all influences such as Arab, Jewish, Roman... Catalan cuisine has seduced Gérard Depardieu. He appreciates the gambas, the beans and the snails. Our two friends begin their journey in La Calma, where they talk about the Prat chickens, a breed with red crests and blue-gray legs, and end up in Gallecs, where the hook bean is grown, a local specialty that intrigues them.

Gérard Depardieu and Laurent Audiot's Portuguese journey starts in Porto, at the Bolhão market. Horse mackerel, sardines, cod, tripe: everything appeals to them. Then they go to Aguada de Cima, where they taste a suckling pig. In Tentúgal, a chestnut farmer shows them eight hundred year old trees. The two companions then meet the comic book artist Mathieu Sapin in a Lisbon bar. Last stop in Tróia, by the ocean, where the duo learns to fish for octopus and hunt for knives.

Gérard Depardieu and Laurent Audiot visit places in the Paris region that are home to products that are sometimes little known: the roof of the Paris Opera House and its beehives, Méréville, the capital of watercress, Milly-la-Forêt and its mint, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône and its old mushroom beds... The two companions then take a break in a Parisian bistro before going to observe the making of (real) Paris ham. The journey ends in the vegetable garden of the castle of Courances.