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Jean-Luc Petitrenaud is no more. The French journalist, writer and gastronomic critic died this Friday, January 10. It was his children who announced the sad news to AFP. The presenter of “Carte poste gourmande” and “Les escapades de Petitrenaud” was 74 years old.
Jean-Luc Petitrenaud died “surrounded by his family” at the age of 74, the heartbreaking announcement of his 2 children
who notably presented TV shows like “Gourmet postcard”died this Friday January 10, 2025in Paris, at the age of 74. It was his children who announced the sad news to AFP. He died “surrounded by loved ones”declared his children Louise and Antonin Petitrenaud, who “thank the people who loved him so much during these years“. Born on December 5, 1950 in Clermont-Ferrand, Jean-Luc Petitrenaud is best known for his passion for cooking and his love of local products. His career has mainly developed around the promotion of French gastronomy, both on television and radio., including “The escapes of Petitrenaud” broadcast on France 5, where he traveled across France to highlight the talents of chefs, local specialties and artisanal producers. In 2017, he retired from television for personal reasons, and . He finally explained more fully about this departure two years later against Jordan de Luxe
Guest of the show The luxury moment in October 2019, he implied having been dismissed by France 5. “I believe I was one of those who reached as if behind each young person there were new ideas, which may be right, but not very right sometimes because experience is something not so bad, especially in an area like the table“he detailed. Then Jean-Luc Petitrenaud returns to his absence after this departure from French television. “I stopped, I wanted to write my book, and then we took the opportunity to move on to something else and I never came back. I was very tired, that’s why I wanted to concentrate on my book, because one trip per week by plane and company… It was a form of weariness, it’s for very personal reasons”, he then explained.
Jean-Luc Petitrenaud admitted having “put one knee on the ground”
in which he shared his favorites and gastronomic discoveries, admitted at the time to having “put one knee on the ground” but wanted to be reborn from his ashes. “I find that in this era, we are increasingly missing this beautiful phrase that children love so much: ‘Once upon a time’. Tell a story to people in a country currently suffering from dreams, It didn’t hurt at lunchtime to have someone who slipped in between the aperitif toast and the drink, to have someone who came to tell a story about our roots in our provinces”he regretted.
