''Ciel, mon Pinard!'' was a very popular
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
cooking show on
Télé-Québec
The Société de télédiffusion du Québec (; en, Quebec Television Broadcasting Corporation), branded as Télé-Québec (), is a Canadian French-language public educational television network in the province of Quebec. It is a provincial Crown ...
with
Daniel Pinard as main chef and
Josée Di Stasio as assistant. While many
kitchen shows tend to be formulaic, the success of this programme was in its offbeat, poetic digressions of the knowledgeable Pinard. The show was a springboard for Di Stasio, who went off to star in her own cooking show,
À la Di Stasio, after Pinard left the programme. The title is a pun on the legendary line "Ciel, mon mari!" (''Heavens, my husband!'') from the plays of
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
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playwright
Georges Feydeau.
See also
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List of Quebec television series
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Cuisine of Quebec
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Culture of Quebec
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Canadian cooking television series
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