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Airdate: Taste Le Tour

French TV chef Gabriel Gaté returns ahead of SBS' broadcast of the Tour de France.

Oui! French TV chef Gabriel Gaté returns to the small screen next week for a series of gastronomic indulgences ahead of SBS’ broadcast of the Tour de France.

Gaté was very popular when he was on Nine, and later joined Bert Newton on GMA.

French chef, Gabriel Gaté, is back for the eighth consecutive year presenting his delicious serves of Taste Le Tour 2012, a gastronomic journey that follows the route of the Tour de France bicycle race. The popular French chef visits every one of the regions of this year’s amazing race, which begins in the Belgian town of Liège. After spending three days in Belgium, the Tour arrives in France to continue through the regions of the Nord Pas de Calais, Picardy, Normandy, Champagne, Lorraine, Franche Compté, the Rhône Alps, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées, Aquitaine, Limousin and the Central Area before ending up in Paris.

It’s evident that Gabriel loves his native land as he meets talented artisans, including chefs, pâtissiers (pastry cooks) boulangers (bakers) vignerons (wine makers), fromagers (cheese makers) and, of course, some wonderful cuisiniers (chefs). Throughout the series, Gabriel discovers the outstanding qualities of regional French food and visits some wonderful markets in France and Belgium. Gabriel, who trained in France forty years ago with some of the best French chefs, is in no doubt that France is the most exciting country in the world for food.

Gabriel goes into the heart of Champagne and discovers the vineyard where Dom Perignon is made. In each region Gabriel seeks out the very best cheeses – his great weakness – such as the compté cheese from the Franche Compté region, the Brie de Meaux from around Paris and the cheeses from the north. Gabriel knows France intimately and has chosen some stunning locations, like the Channel coast line in Boulogne-Sur-Mer, the peaks of the Pyreenees and the amazing cathedrals of Rouen and Chartres. In each of the 21 episodes Gabriel prepares a delicious regional dish.

Taste Le Tour with Gabriel Gaté adds a wonderful cultural dimension to the superb coverage of the greatest bicycle race on earth.

Screens on SBS nightly during the Tour de France from Saturday 30 June to Sunday 22 July (times not available).

2 Responses

  1. Yes, Gate is back! Initially I hated his presence, hoping they would get the race on ASAP, but if there is something interesting happening on the road they always put Gate at the back end of the broadcast ie. 2am. Plus his accent is funny…

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