What do the French do better than food, sex and wine? French Chef, JEAN SEBASTIEN GENTIL, single­handedly runs the acclaimed Chez JeanSe’ in a small quirky village in Provence with his sous vide expertise proving his love and a French version of ambition to his American muse, AIMEE TALBOT, a successful corporate executive he lured from Paris into the restaurant business with him, while each of their mothers work in opposition to break them up or get them married, but it takes a village to keep the restaurant afloat and the couple together, when her extortionist “husband” vying for his US citizenship threatens to tell all about their “white wedding” to her beloved chef that could get her deported after their daughter is born.
DRAMEDY: A FRENCH Kitchen Confidential cross between WELCOME TO SWEDEN and LILYHAMMER with a sexy, bi­cultural PARENTHOOD dynamic. 

SYNOPSIS:

Real life French Chef JEAN SEBASTIEN GENTIL is an expert in sous vide cooking and actually single-handedly runs his highly acclaimed restaurant, Les Sarments, in idyllic Provence, using this method with his American life partner, AMY FOXWELL, who quickly realized that she was in over her head in more ways than one. They wanted to share their story and granted me life story rights to do so. This series is a fictionalized account of their life together in France for the last 10 years, a never-ending font of universal work and family stories that cross cultural boundaries, so real and too funny not to be true, but captured as a parody on life, marriage, family and the rock and roll theater of the restaurant business in France where FOOD IS A RELIGION along with SEX and WINE.

FOOD, SEX & WHINE, A FICTALITY® TV SERIES, BY SUE SHEAIN

Pilot Script Available Upon Request.

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