This event aims at transferring knowledge and experience about French gastronomy to the general public, especially the younger generation. Through school programmes, tasting menus, workshops and cooking demonstration by renowned chefs, it favours not only the communication between the professionals and the public, it also helps to preserve the French culinary legacies. If you are in France this week, be sure to check out the official programme guide and seize this opportunity to explore the diversity of French cuisine!
For more information about the event, please visit their official website.
If you are not in France, there are also numerous lifestyle and special programmes about the history and culture of French cuisine on our network, read on!
1. Les maîtres des saveurs
French cuisine is one of the richest and most popular in the world. But where does its global success and reputation for diversity come from? Let's discover 21 foreign chefs play virtuosos with French local products!
2. Épicerie fine
Who are French farmers? How do they grow premium produce? And above all, how should it be cooked? On his weekly show, chef Guy Martin meets with lovers of local specialties and gastronomy in a return to the roots of what really makes a great dish: high-quality ingredients!
3. 5 chefs dans ma cuisine
Every day of the week, Marina Orsini welcomes a new chef to her kitchen. Each chef specializes in a different kind of cuisine that matches the chosen theme: meatless, locally sourced, cooking in larger quantities, flavours of the world, and cooking to entertain.
4. Amuse-gueule
Stéphane Gabioud and his experts discuss health and diet, and respond to viewers' questions! Discover the advices on our way of eating, recipes to try at home, meetings with artisans, discoveries of typical appetizers and immersion in the cuisine of famous French-speaking
people!
5. La main à la pâte
After 20 years at the hot stoves of great restaurants all around the world, Chef Luc Jean is home again. The St. Boniface, Manitoba, native has only one thing on his mind: rediscovering local and regional foods and flavours and the people who produce them.
6. La quête d'Alain Ducasse
Twenty-three restaurants, eighteen Michelin stars, schools... What could this quest be for Alain Ducasse, the little boy from the Landes who became the world's best-known chef?
7. Les maîtres de l'huile d'olive
Only a few years ago, olive oil was a banal ingredient in Mediterranean cooking. Today, growers with a veritable passion have made it a product of excellence, essential in all high end cuisine. From Tuscany to Spain, from the Peloponnese to the Drôme, a voyage to the heart of a nectar.
8. L'épicerie
We all eat three times a day. Food is at the heart of our daily concerns. This is why we ask ourselves many questions: What are the nutritional values of each food? Where is it made? How? 'Or' What? Is it worth consuming it?
9. Les maîtres du pain
One of our most basic foods, bread originally appeared in the Middle East at around 8,000 BC, when agriculture first began. In France, Greece and Italy, the different types of bread and innumerable shapes it takes on have a strong symbolic value, firmly rooted in cultural and religious traditions.
10. La vigne en héritage
When the great French wine estates continue to uphold the tradition of working together as a family... Eight episodes that endeavour to present the vineyards and the historical heritage that forms part of their renown!
10. Savourer
Each week, nutritionist Geneviève O'Gleman invites viewers to spend less time in their kitchens and more time at the table. Her mission: to help audiences prepare simpler, healthier food. Whatever she makes, you can bet it's simple, healthy and delicious.
Bon appétit !
Gastronomy has always been important in French culture. Since 1990, La Semaine du Goût ® (the Week of Taste), normally takes place in October to celebrate French gastronomic heritage with domestic and international guests. This year, the event is held between the 10 to 16 of October.