The gastronomic journalist Jean-Luc Petitrenaud, who notably presented the television shows Gourmet postcard et The escapades of Petitrenauddied Friday January 10, 2025 in Paris at the age of 74, his children announced.
This familiar figure from the small screen has died “surrounded by loved ones”declared to theAFP his children Louise and Antonin Petitrenaud, who “thank the people who loved him so much during these years”.
From boilermaking to culinary criticism
Born in Clermont-Ferrand and holder of a boilermaker CAP, he explained in VSD in May 2005 that he had notably learned the culture of “eating well” by going to his grandmother Louise who lived on the edge of the Tronçais forest, in Allier and who prepared his favorite dish: pâté with potatoes.
Leaving boilermaking for a specialized education diploma, he also cultivated his love for theater and circus arts. A characteristic which was undoubtedly a key to his very theatrical style on television.
Jean-Luc Petitrenaud began by hosting shows in the early 1980s on Radio Puy-de-Dôme, the future France Bleu Pays d’Auvergne. It was in Switzerland where he settled for a while that the shift took place since Radio Suisse Romande asked him to write a culinary review.
Subsequently, he was on the air of “L’heure de voix” on the Voyage channel, then from 1997 to 2000, of “Grands Gourmands” on France 3.
Regularly in the Center-West
October 8, 2000 marked the start of his most famous show – Gourmet postcard on France 5 – became from September 2006 The Escapades of Petitrenaud for which he regularly came to the Center-West.
“I want the guy watching the show to want to jump on the TV to come and eat with us” he explained to The New Republic in 2012.
He then hosted the Sunday Bistro on Europe 1from 1998 to 2014 and from 1998 to 2006, he wrote a column in L’Express.
Jean-Luc Petitrenaud has also been the author of numerous works on the world of gastronomy.
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