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What our plate says about us

Audio 48:29

what our plates say about us © Pixabay/CC0/Byothe

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

From wartime rationing to today's abundance, the way the French eat has evolved over the decades.

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The advent of the hypermarket, the arrival of household appliances in kitchens, the agri-food boom and then the quest for organic have indeed transformed our plates and our relationship to food.

And if it is today classified as a cultural and intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco, for its conviviality, the pleasure of taste or its links with the land, "the French gastronomic meal", also coexists with the street and fast food.

At a set time, at the table, alone or with the family, the meals are therefore not insignificant and show us all the complexity and paradoxes of a country known worldwide for its cuisine and the pleasures of the table.

What do our plates say about French society today?  

With :

Jean-Louis André

, contributing journalist for the newspaper

and the magazine

, director and author of 

At the end of the show,

monde des enfants , a podcast produced by 

Once a month, children discuss around a philosophical theme,

such as love, the future, fear... and

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To address this theme, Charlie Dupiot interfered with his microphone in a group of friends in Saint-Aubin, a small village in Yonne, in Burgundy: Louna and Augustine are 9 years old, Naomi and Liv, 10 years old... All four have known each other since kindergarten and are now in the same class of CM1 

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► Summer Dream

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► Thoughts & Prayers

- Samm Henshaw 

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