Birthday party for Semaine du Goût
Low-priced restaurant menus and “taste lessons” in schools are part of a week celebrating food which turns 20 today
THREE hundred chefs will be assembling in Place du Trocadéro in Paris today for a photo around a birthday cake, to mark the start of the 20th Semaine du Goût, which lasts until Sunday.
The chefs will help launch the week with Food Minister Bruno Le Maire and restaurant critic Jean-Luc Petitrenaud, before they head into Paris schools to give “taste lessons” to children in primary schools and hospitals.
All around France, hundreds of food and cookery professionals will be giving talks and demonstrations in schools as part of the week, which is meant to make people more appreciative of the richness of the country’s food heritage. About 6,000 “taste lessons” are scheduled.
The organisers say that in a world with increasingly bland and standardised food, people should realise that “eating well is not a luxury and should be part of daily life.”
Other aspects of the week will be a Chef sur le Campus programme to help students eat well and inexpensively, special low-priced menus in 500 restaurants and events such as tastings and demonstrations. The Talents du Goût prizes for food professionals have however been discontinued this year.
More details can be found at Semaine du Goût
