Episode 8

Eva takes a boat trip down the Seine with chef Eric Ripert and writer Lindsay Shapiro. Together, they explore the story of French gastronomy through a seven-course fine dining meal.

At the heart of this delicious story is one man – Auguste Escoffier. He dominated every aspect of gastronomy, inventing and improving hundreds of classic dishes, bringing order to chaos in the kitchen with his military style brigade, and revolutionising front of house. Escoffier put French haute cuisine on the global map.