French dinner etiquette
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week it's Antoine Litaise from Voulez Vous Diner, a French company that's kind of like Airbnb but for dinner. You find a chef online, book a dinner at their home, then go and eat it.
These guys are in 120 countries, but it started in France, so the head of the company, an avid cook named Antoine, joined me in the studio to help me out with French etiquette tips before I went and tried the concept for myself.
Here's the link in case you want to try the same experience that I did.
And here's the link to my YouTube channel if you want to check out the videos I was describing.
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| 0:00.0 | It's another Monday in Paris and that means another episode of the Earful Tower. |
| 0:04.0 | As always, unfalteringly, unfailingly, I'm here in the studio on Monday to present this episode. |
| 0:10.0 | The Yearful Tower is brought to you by the people at French Today. |
| 0:14.0 | That is a language company teaching you French, modern French, traditional French, any French you like via audiobooks. And yeah, they sponsor this show. |
| 0:22.3 | So I'm going to speak about them at the very end of the episode. Hang around if you want to find out |
| 0:26.2 | how to get the link to get you a 10% off, a further 10% off all of their audiobooks. Spoiler |
| 0:32.1 | alert, it's Frenchtay.com forward slash earful too. Otherwise listen to the end of the episode for more on that. |
| 0:38.3 | But I figured before we get in today's episode, which is a young Frenchman named Antoine |
| 0:43.5 | Lites, who's talking about French dining etiquette. I thought, first I'd tell you the story about |
| 0:49.9 | how this came about this episode, but also have a little talk about the videos that I've been doing |
| 0:55.1 | because, I mean, I just put a lot of time into it. It would be a shame not to talk about it. |
| 0:59.5 | So if you just hear for Antoine, you should skip forward a couple of minutes because you're just going to be stuck with me for a while. |
| 1:05.3 | But first, how the story came about is I was playing basketball with a French guy called Arnau who was telling me about |
| 1:12.2 | this company that essentially does dinner at French people's houses or I mean they're in 120 |
| 1:18.6 | countries around the world this French company right now but started in France and the idea is |
| 1:22.9 | you go and have dinner at a chef's house or someone who's good at cooking and you get to, I don't know, |
| 1:28.9 | you get to hang out with them, you get to taste their version of dinner, you get to spend some time |
| 1:33.2 | with them. Anyway, Arna was telling me about this and then I was talking about this podcast. Next thing, |
| 1:38.2 | I know the CEO of the company is on the phone inviting me for dinner. So I went along for a dinner, |
| 1:43.2 | which was really fantastic. It was at a master |
| 1:46.0 | chef winner's home and he cooked for 13, I think people, a bunch of sort of journalists and |
| 1:53.2 | bloggers and me, the only angle phone podcaster in the room along with all these sort of journalists |
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