Posted
Update
Article written by
Since March 2020, the French have been more and more numerous to literally get their hands dirty. Thursday, December 30, the journalist Corentin Fouchard comments on this rush towards the stoves.
Cooking at home is a practice that has been on the rise since the first confinement in March 2020. In light of a study published in May 2020, Public Health France (SpF) confirmed this idea. Thus, 37% of people surveyed indicated that they had cooked more during the pandemic. Second indicator of this plebiscite of home-made cooking, the increases in sales of kitchen appliances at Moulinex. The seller of small household appliances saw the sale of its kitchen machines increase by 30% and that of bread machines increase by 40%. Lidl was also able to benefit from this attraction for the kitchen with its robot Monsieur Cuisine Smart. The store hopes to sell 180,000 copies.
And to always learn more about the culinary art, the books are also very popular with the French. Moreover, Home made, Cyril Lignac’s cookbook has already sold more than a million copies. To benefit from expert advice from his sofa, 3 million faithful watch Laurent Mariotte’s recipes every day in Small dishes in balance on TF1. Others prefer the show of France 2 Open kitchen or Top chef, whose 13th season will be broadcast on M6 in early 2022.
all the news on video
Receive most of our news with our newsletter
Newsletter subscription
France Télévisions uses your email address to send you newsletters.
articles On the same topic
Seen from Europe
Every day, Franceinfo selects content from European public audiovisual media, members of Eurovision. These contents are published in English or French.