Les cités gastronomiques qui représentent la gastronomie Française internationalement.

The gastronomic meal of the French was inscribed on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (Unesco), in 2010. The creation of a Cité de la gastronomie falls into France’s commitments. After the selection process, no one but four cities were elected in June 2013 : Dijon, Lyon, Paris-Rungis et Tours. Each one of them will have to defend an identifying theme. More fundamentally, all cities should answer the question of gastronomic identity in itself, between preservation and innovation, consistency and perseverance. Through this structuring, we avoid a pointless debate on identity. Finally, Cités (cultural centers) positioning, especially on institutional websites, can be put back in an enlarged estimation context, in which gastronomic identity take on its full value.

Laurent Truyen Comte de la Fenouillime.