Eva Longoria Says 6-Year-Old Son Has ‘Appreciation of Worldly Cultures,’ Asks for Macarons in Paris and Paella in Spain (Exclusive)

The actress tells PEOPLE Santiago, the son she shares with husband José Bastón, “eats everything”

Eva Longoria’s 6-year-old son already has an adventurous palate.

During a recent interview with PEOPLE about her new campaign for Nespresso, the actress, 49, opened up about living between Spain and Mexico for the past few years — and the culinary perks of raising Santiago, whom she shares with husband José Bastón, abroad.

“I think the easiest way to get to know a culture is through food, and I love food,” she says. “So I think for me, my lifestyle of living is being a citizen of the world, and also showing my son the world. I think he's so smart and bright.”

Santiago “eats everything,” she explains.

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“I'm going to Paris. He goes, ‘Bring me back some macarons,’” she adds. “He knows that comes from Paris. Or I'll say, ‘We're going to go to Spain,’ and he's like, ‘Oh my God, are we going to have paella?’ So it's really sweet to see him also growing up with this appreciation of worldly cultures.”

Longoria also expressed her own admiration for both countries’ cuisine.

“Mexico has the best breakfasts in the world,” she says. “I feel like the rest of the world is so boring with breakfast. France is croissant, coffee. Spain is toast and coffee. America's bacon and eggs, like, okay. Where in Mexico you have so many options. You have chilaquiles, you have molletes, you have huevos rancheros, huevos divorciados, pan dulce. It's endless. It's endless. So I love breakfasts in Mexico.”

And as for Spain, she says, “I love everything.”

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“I like going to the market, buying what you're going to cook tonight,” she says. “You have to go to the meat market to get your meat. … There are supermarkets, but for the most part you go and get what you're cooking from different places. And that it's just fresh. It's just healthy. It's clean. It's all local. It's always local. That tomato is literally from that farm right there. So I just love the clean eating of Spain.”

“And that's why when I eat at 10 o'clock at night in Spain, I don't get sick,” she adds. “I'm not like, ‘Oh, my stomach.’ I'm not full, because it's such clean eating. Where here, I could never eat a 10 o'clock at night dinner. Are you crazy?”

The Desperate Housewives alum recently spent three days in Rome, shooting a new ad for Nespresso opposite George Clooney.

While the actor is known to prank his pals, Longoria says he was “well-behaved” on set. However, the pair still spent the time “laughing and laughing and laughing.”

“Everybody loves him,” she adds. “His energy, just to be around him is like... It's contagious. You just have to be kind because he's just the kindest human being.”