What exactly is Le Fooding? Even if you haven’t heard of the groundbreaking organization started in 1999 by French journalists Alexandre Cammas and Emmanuel Rubin who famously coined the contraction of “food” and “feeling” – everyone has at one time said these words before, “So, what do you feel like eating tonight?”
Le Fooding did what Michelin could have done when they had the chance – they took an accurate culinary temperature of a nation and voiced it in current terms on its own terms. What today seems the norm wasn’t always so – chefs cooking what they feel like cooking versus what they thought was traditionally expected of them.
With this concept, Le Fooding launched an exciting freedom movement and put both chefs and foodies “in the know” of what was happening on the food scene – utilizing social media to bring together a like-minded food community – and started to change the perception that the French aren’t high gastronomy snobs.
In France, their website is a must on one’s RSS reader and chefs have a blast recording video recipes and participating in the fun food events that sell out in minutes. (Ironically, the New York City Le Fooding event is one of the hottest tickets in town when they bring some of Paris’ coolest chefs to the big apple.) Now if I can just get them to New Orleans!
Instead of uptight serious dining, eating out in Paris is definitely now a mostly “fun” experience and why places like Frenchie and Septime receive over 300 phone calls an hour. It is what the public craves and wants.
To find out where Le Fooding thinks 2012 is taking us food-wise, check out the new Le Fooding Guide now on sale (at FNAC, news kiosks, bookstores, Le Fooding’s website) and the just announced best of the best “Palmares” awards.
Congratulations to all the winners!!!
Now, where do you feel like eating tonight?
The Au Passage Team was so excited they couldn't keep their pants up!
Prix Fooding Guide 2012 de la meilleure table
Chatomat, Paris
Prix Fooding Guide 2012 du meilleur bar à vins
Frenchie bar à vins, Paris
Prix Fooding Guide 2012 du meilleur delirium
La Grenouillère, Montreuil-sur-Mer
Prix Fooding d’amour Guide 2012
Au Passage, Paris
Prix Fooding d’honneur Guide 2012
Bertrand Grébaut
Septime, Paris
Prix Fooding Guide 2012 du meilleur “régalez-vous !”
L’Agapé Substance, Paris
Prix Fooding Guide 2012 du meilleur retour de pêche
Le Cabanon, Ajaccio
Prix Fooding Guide 2012 du meilleur livre de cuisine
En cuisine avec Alain Passard, Christophe Blain, Gallimard
Prix Fooding Guide 2012 du meilleur décor
Pier Schneider et François Wunschel (1024 Architecture)
Les Grandes tables de l’île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt
Prix Fooding Guide 2012 des meilleurs bistrots ex aequo
Le Pantruche, Paris
Le Grain de Sel, Marseille
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