The gastronomic journalist Jean-Luc Petitrenaud, who had notably presented the TV shows “Gourmet Postcard” and “Les Escapades de Petitrenaud” on France 5, died Friday in Paris at 74, announced his children to AFP.
This familiar figure of the small screen died “surrounded by his relatives”, told AFP his children Louise and Antonin Petitrenaud, who “thank the people who loved her so much during these years”.
The death of Jean-Luc Petitrenaud comes three weeks after that of Maïté, another pillar of cooking on television, at 86 years old.
Silver hair, small elegant glasses and costumes, Jean-Luc Petitrenaud had presented the program “Gourmet Postcard” on the France 5 public TV channel from 2000 to 2006, then “Les Escapades de Petitrenaud” from 2006. The gastronomic critic had decided to leave its presentation in 2017, saying tired.
“It was a form of weariness, it is for very personal reasons,” he explained in the C8 program “L’Inston de Luxe” in 2019.
On the radio, he had notably presented “Le Bistrot du Dimanche” on Europe 1 from 1998 to 2014. At the turn of the years 1990-2000, he also signed gastronomic criticisms in “L’Express”.
He had been clown
Originally from Clermont-Ferrand, Jean-Luc Petitrenaud had in his youth followed a boilermaking training, was a specialized educator and took courses at the Annie Fratellini circus school, as a clown. He then devoted himself to cooking, on which he published many books.
“Screwed in the kitchen, we looked with complicity the round of the pans that drew the contours of supper,” he wrote in his book of memories “Bienvenue at my home” in 2016.
“On Sunday evening, we finished the fatty rice that had dressed the roast beef at lunchtime. Ah! This crisp rice, dazzled with butter, which sings in the mouth! “, He continued, greeting” the imagination of the housewives of that time “like its grandmother Louise:” Three times nothing and paradise opens its doors “.
