Hors D'Oeuvre

Mathieu Pacaud, starred chef at Ambroisie, is inspired by Monet's "Déjeuner sur l'herbe" to prepare a pâté croute and forgotten chicken...

Norman Rockwell, one of the most famous illustrators of the 20th century, painted the famous Thanksgiving meal, entitled "Freedom From Want", in 1943...

Patrick Bertron, Bernard Loiseau's successor at the "La Côte d'or" restaurant in Saulieu, concocts a traditional Gallic menu in Alesia...

The chef Olivier Roellinger, sailor and master of Cancale oysters, revisits the painting of Jean-François de Troy, painter at the court of Louis XV...

After an introduction by the historian Pierre Rosenberg, the chef Pierre Gagnaire makes a creation based on Chardin's "Canard et une bigarade".

Chef of the restaurant "Le Grand Véfour", Guy Martin recreates "Le Diner de Louis XIV", the only painting representing the Sun King at table, made in 1863 by Jean-Leon Gerome.

In 1568, Pieter Bruegel immortalized the country weddings in reality and in the canvas to better depict them...

A tasty tribute to Italian cuisine, "The Ricotta Eaters", painted in 1580 by Vincenzo Campi, a Renaissance master, will take you on a journey...

Chef Sebastien Bras creates a prehistoric meal based on reindeer, a popular meat of the Cro-Magnon era, prepared with honey, according to the cooking methods of yesteryear...

Anne-Sophie Pic revisits the work of Arcimboldo, a Renaissance painter with a fertile imagination, while a historian describes the food of the era...

The three-star chef from New York, Daniel Humm, revisits the creation of a hamburger. He finds the inspiration in Andy Warhol's canvas, which the painter made as a vibrant tribute to the United States of America.

The two-star chef Denis Fetisson pays tribute to the painter Bernard Buffet by creating a tomato hymn, which adorns one of his still life masterpieces.

The chef Thomas Martin takes a look at the art work of a German painter Max Liebermann. In 1872 he created a canvas where he showed labor workers of a cannery.

Created in 1560, this painting by the Dutch artist Pieter Aertsen proves that people were already feasting on pancakes back in the 16th century. Four and a half centuries later, the chef Alain Passard offers us his own version of pancakes and French galettes.

Polynesia was home to the life and tormented love stories of Paul Gauguin. In his Cancale kitchen, Olivier Roellinger sails towards the universe of the painter he admires.

Vincent Van Gogh painted "The Potato Eaters", a family gathered around a frugal dinner. This famous work from 1885 describes the harsh reality of life in the countryside, where potatoes were the main food of these hardworkers. On the other hand, the Alsatian chef Marc Haeberlin, magnifies the tuber.

If having a meal is often a moment of sharing, it can also be a solitary pleasure, like reading a book, or even a good manga. Jirô Taniguchi honores the Japanese cuisine, its small restaurants and its simple and popular dishes in his comic book "The Lonely Gourmet". He is welcomed by Kei Kobayashi, one of the most talented chefs of the new Japanese generation.

"White sounds like silence, the nothing before it all begins." This quote by the famous painter Vassily Kandinsky resonates like an echo in Marc Veyrat's mountains. White as snow, white as the liquid of this "maid pouring milk", the original title of this major work of Johannes Vermeer, the "Sphinx of Delft".

The first cheeses in the history of art appear on a canvas painted around 1615 by a Flemish artist. Little is known about its author Clara Peeters. However, there are no secrets about the making of Reblochon cheese, which is still being matured on the farm as it was in the past. This is a great opportunity for the chef Marc Veyrat to reconsider the famous tartiflette through two recipes.

The Wellington Museum in London is home to The Waterseller of Seville, one of Diego Velázquez's major works. Chef Alberto Herraiz has chosen lightness for the cuisine that he offers to Guillaume Kientz, curator of the retrospective devoted to the painter in 2015 at the Grand Palais.

In 1876, Renoir painted one of the greatest works of his career, the 'Bal du Moulin de la Galette': an oil on canvas and a hymn to the joy of life. Shaking up the codes, Renoir shows a joyful crowd enjoying a summer day. Thierry Marx has immersed himself in the world of the 19th century to create a meal full of colors.

Painted in 1655, "The Slaughtered Ox" depicts a scene that Chef Alexandre Gauthier is trying to reproduce. Awarded "Chef of the Year" in 2016, he was inspired to prepare an amazing meal in the colors of the Dutch painter.

Made around 1410 by the Limbourg brothers, this image of a banquet, intended for the book of hours of the Duke of Berry, and which puts him in scene, is one of the most precious illuminations of the history of art. It also inspires the chef Arnaud Lallement to create a meal of lords.

In 1563, Veronese, one of the Italian masters of the Renaissance, painted a monumental canvas showing many of the sweets popular at the time, including the famous cotignac, a quince jelly. Pastry chef Nicolas Bernardé is working to reproduce these sweet delights with the same meticulousness as an Italian master in front of his canvas.

The starred chef Thierry Marx had fun realizing the imaginary menu of Enki Bilal, described in the last volume of his "Monster Tetralogy" a meal destined to be savored in 2027. He proposed a farandole of grilled abalone, barnacles, frosted placoderms and flambéed holocephalus cheeks.