Rencontre et Dédicace : Emilie Laystary

As part of the Emulsion Festival. Everyday and universal, the act of eating is as much a physiological need as a cultural gesture. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are": in 1825, the legendary phrase of the gastro-sopher Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin captured the importance of eating habits in our ways of being. What remains of these links between what we ingest and who we are? While discourses on food are dominated by a legitimate culture, dispensing lessons and guaranteeing good taste, this book offers a different menu. Decentering, decolonizing, and de-gendering food: the time has come to shake off the tablecloth and make the plate an ideal magnifying glass to grasp our multiple identities.

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