Périgueux, capital of gluttony in the Dordogne, recognizable by its letter G, which floats almost everywhere in town. The 19th edition of the Gourmet Book Festival, chaired by multi-starred chef Thierry Marx, is preparing to welcome, Friday 15, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November, more than 80 authors and as many meetings, debates and culinary demonstrations , most of which are accessible free of charge at the Theater and on the Badinter esplanade (1).
1 Thierry Marx fighter for good accessible to all
After Olivier Rœllinger, multi-starred chef, hired to repair canteens in France and guest of honor at the Périgord event in 2023, Thierry Marx, brandishes the standard of “good accessible to all”. The emblematic chef invited the writer and academician Erik Orsenna, “under the spell of what he writes and what he says”, as well as Pierre Weill, the committed agronomist, at the head of the Bleu- Blanc-Cœur for sustainable food, “a wonderful guy I met around twenty years ago”. He is the author of clinical studies that verify the social, environmental and nutritional impact of products, particularly breast milk.
With them, he will host a debate, Saturday at 3:30 p.m., on “From the land to the plate: we commit otherwise…” at the Theater, the epicenter of all the debates. We will also find him alongside the physical chemist Raphaël Haumont, also on Saturday, a little earlier (at 10 a.m.), with whom he founded the French Center for Culinary Innovation at the University of Orsay to work on cooking and food in 2050.
There will be no shortage of debate meetings and demonstrations.
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Finally, Thierry Marx will host another meeting with sociologist Claude Fischler, who is fighting “to give meaning back to the culture of eating” (Sunday at 10 a.m., “Eating well today, how to do it? Trends and behavior”). “We have eaters who eat anything and everything and are surprised that they have diabetes. It’s not eating, but filling a belly,” reports Thierry Marx.
2 Three days of meetings with 80 authors
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During the 2023 edition of the festival.
The 19th edition has its media personalities, its famous chefs, its star authors from social networks like the influencer Hervé Cuisine, the dietician Myriam Moussier or the Bordeaux Niangcook, but also its experts, whistleblowers and committed personalities like Amélie Poinssot, author of “Who will feed us? At the heart of the ecological emergency, peasant renewal”, and Laure Ducos, former project manager at Greenpeace. Both will host a debate meeting on the agro-food model, Saturday at 10 a.m., with the biting question “Are we killing it or is it killing us?” “.
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Around 80 authors are expected at the festival over these three days.
Among the numerous meetings, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., several will also concern health (for example anti-inflammatory cooking, Saturday at 11:15 a.m. with Marianne Magnier-Moreno and Nina Voit) or even pastry.
3 Food and words, the tasty mix
“As many dishes as words are great in Périgueux,” appreciates Thierry Marx. These are not just ingredients that we pile up, but poetry and history. »
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The demonstrations should make your taste buds salivate.
In this spirit, Erik Orsenna will participate in La Grande Dictée gourmande, created by author Julien Soulié, Saturday at 11:15 a.m., on the main stage of the Théâtre, open to all. The Palace-Ralph-Finkler (rue Bodin) will host another literary reading around the figure of the late Jim Harrison, the writer who was a great gourmand before the eternal (Sunday at 3 p.m.).
4 A wide cultural program
La Visitation (rue Littré) will host, from November 15 and until December 21, the third exhibition “Hectares”, restitution of authors’ residencies with local farmers (Saint-Geniès, Eyzerac and Razac-d’Eymet) . The City’s Art and history service, the Ciné Cinéma association and the Museum of Art and Archeology (Maap) will also offer several meetings before or after the festival, to be found in detail on the program. We will cite, for example, a presentation of food during prehistory at the Maap, this Thursday, November 14 at 12:30 p.m. (free).
5 The Little Gluttons at the heart of the event
Once again, the Petits Gloutons space welcomes children all weekend with activities, games and a reading corner. The many activities (1) are free. However, you must make a reservation to have access to the creative and cooking workshops, for which the number of places is limited.
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Children are not forgotten during the event with activities just for them.
Information and reservations on 05 53 02 82 32. Youth will also present the Dame Tartine literary prize, created in 2021, Friday at 7:30 p.m., at the Theater. This is a prize dedicated to a youth gastronomy work awarded by schoolchildren from Périgueux.
(1) Free entry Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., then Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Find the program in detail on livregourmand.perigueux.fr.
