Sophie and Patrice sample some delicious pastries for breakfast: pain au chocolat, chausson aux pommes, pain au lait, and more. Warning: this video may give you some serious cravings!

Mother Francis of Assisi has prepared a Christmas feast for the eyes and the palate. You can even try the recipes yourself if you wish!

At the Pasquié abbey, Mother Francis of Assisi prepares a delicious dessert, the Saint-Hélier cake, which is a typically British recipe. You will discover the names of the many ingredients going into this cake!

At the abbey of Pesquié in Ariège, the Benedictine sisters are getting ready to celebrate Christmas, with religious celebrations, traditional dishes and homemade gifts.

Sophie and Patrice talk about kitchen utensils, and Patrice shares a few tips on how to avoid burning your food.

Claude and Zette are making some bread together. The recipe only requires ten minutes of prep time.

Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve call for a celebratory feast in France: le réveillon. While some stick with traditional fare—oysters, stuffed capon, a Yule log—others might branch out to more unusual delicacies like mullet roe or even dried insects!

In part two of this video on apple juice making, Frédéric shows us how apple juice can be turned into hard cider through the fermentation process.

Watch Frédéric make delicious apple juice with a hand press. Once the juice is pressed and filtered, Frédéric will place it in a barrel to decant for twenty-four hours.

Lionel continues his behind-the-scenes tour of the madeleine factory. It only takes one hour to make a thousand of these iconic French sweets!

Faced with a butter shortage in France, this bakery is among the few that are choosing to wait in hopes that the price of butter will drop. Apparently, customers are too fond of the bakery's delicious pastries to let a price increase deter them. After all, pastries are one of life's essentials in France...

Lionel meets with Steven, who works in the madeleine factory. Without giving away too much of the secret family recipe, he shows us how these delicious specialties are made. The first step is to crack over three liters of eggs!

In this third segment on the madeleine, a specialty of the Lorraine region, we find out more about the history of the famous pastry. Did you know that the first madeleine appeared in the Middle Ages?

Lionel is still in Liverdun, a small village in the Lorraine, to find out some more about the madeleine. It's a specialty of the region that comes in various delicious flavors, such as mirabelle plum and bergamot orange.

Meet Jean-Claude and Rachelle, who own a specialty store full of delicious goodies. They talk to Lionel about the madeleine, a specialty of the Lorraine region that was supposedly invented by a cook named (you guessed it!) Madeleine.