At the Table of the Gods (French edition) By Jean-Robert Pitte

At the table of the gods of Jean-Robert Pitte is not an ordinary gastronomy book. It is a Fundamental essay on the invisible yet powerful links that unite the act of eating with spiritual beliefs, through the centuries and civilizations.

For a long time, the history of food has been told through the prism of necessity: environment, , demography, , Economy. But the author demonstrates here that these dimensions are not sufficient to explain the symbolic richness of eating practices. Because To eat is also to believe, to dream, to hope, and sometimes even to pray.

In a scholarly yet accessible approach, Jean-Robert Pitte, geographer, historian, and academician, invites us to accept the interconnection of the material and the spiritual, the profane and the sacred, the body and the soul. Through ancient texts, religious rites, and culinary traditions, it reveals how Earthly foods have always been imbued with celestial meanings..

This exciting book is aimed at both enthusiasts of gastronomy, to enthusiasts ofhistory of religions, of philosophy and of Culture. It also sheds new light on our own relationship with food in a world where consumption tends to become desacralized.

Jean-Robert Pitte is in line with his previous works such as Wine and the divine or French gastronomy, by continuing his reflection on the cultural dimension of taste. Quoting Saint Francis de Sales – "We must care for the body so that the soul delights in it" – he reminds us that Eating is not just a need, but a quest for meaning.

🟨 Item features

• Type of product : Book

• Title : At the Table of the Gods

• Author : Jean-Robert Pitte

• Editor : Fayard

• Collection : Various History

• Publication date : February 24, 2009

• Number of pages : 252 pages

• Dimensions 18.5 x 12 x 3.5 cm

• Weight : 415 g

• Language : French

• ISBN : 978-2-213-63802-7