Institute of Advanced Studies in Taste, Gastronomy and the Arts of the Table
Study Program > Course program

 

The course program is built according to a three-pronged approach:

Exact Sciences and Technology
Human and Social Sciences
Economic and Legal Sciences 

In addition, there are:
Pedagogical meals and workshops
A guided visit by night of Rungis International Market, the largest wholesale market in the world for fresh products (with Guy Chemla, Professor at the University of La Sorbonne-IV)


Hautes Etudes du Goût students at Rungis



A glimpse at our 2012 program:

 

 

Exact Sciences and Technology
 

 Comparative biology of food and anthropology of taste
Patrick Pasquet, Director of Research at CNRS, Eco-anthropology and Ethnobiology

 Molecular gastronomy
Hervé This, Physicochemist with INRA – Collège de France


Molecular cuisine with Hervé This


 Aroma chemistry in cooking
Hubert Richard, Professor Emeritus in natural substances' chemistry, ENSIA

 Neurophysiology of taste: cognitive aspects of sensoriality
Patrick MacLeod, President of the Institut Français du Goût

An example of a real terroir effect: the case of cheese
Jean-Baptiste Coulon, Director of Research with INRA


Chocolate: from cocoa production to the impact of variety and terroir in sensorial analysis
Michel Barel,
former CIRAD researcher (CIRAD: French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues)


Food contaminants: are consumers' concerns justified?
Jean-Pierre Cravedi, reseacrher at INRA


Focus on bubble dynamics in Champagne wines
Gérard Liger-Belair, Professor at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne


 

 

Human and Social Sciences

 

 Evolution of food consumption : what can an economic analysis teach us?
Pierre Combris, Director of Research with INRA


 Food geography, a French specificity?
Gilles Fumey, Lecturer at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
Gastronomy and table service in the 19th Century
Denis Saillard, professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines


Sociology and anthropology of food
Michaël Bruckert, researcher at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne

Gastronomic speech and cultural identity
Denis Saillard, professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines


 The psychology of taste : influence of education on children's food behaviour
Natalie Rigal, Lecturer at the University of Paris-X Nanterre

Natalie Rigal: children food behaviour


 Sensorial communication and marketing
Caroline Dusautoir, Lecturer at Reims Management School

Bread
 Jean-Philippe de Tonnac, journalist, essayist, and Christophe Zunic, master baker


 Medieval gastronomy
Bruno Laurioux, Professor in medieval history at the University of Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines


 Wine and magical thinking
Frédéric Brochet, manager of a wine company, winemaker

Frédéric Brochet: magical thinking in wine

Wine, a cultural beverage

Raphaël Schirmer, Lecturer at the University of Bordeaux 3


The Gastronomic Meal of the French on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO)

Pierre Sanner, Director of the Mission Française du Patrimoine et des Cultures Alimentaires (French Commission for Food Heritage and Culture)


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Economic and Legal Sciences


 Evolutions and new trends in the arts of the table sector

Comité des Arts de la Table


Gastronomy in the framework of taste goods -  an economic analysis
Christian Barrère, Professor at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne


 Law, food and gastronomy: the French legal exception
Jean-Paul Branlard, Lecturer in Food Law at the University of Paris-Sud

French fish in Rungis market


 The AOC, an evolutive notion

     The exemplary case of Camembert cheese, a French myth
Pierre Boisard, sociologist and Jean-Paul Branlard, Lecturer of Food Law at the University of Paris-Sud


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Pedagogical meals and workshops

 

Medieval dinner

Bruno Laurioux, Lecturer in medieval history at the University of Versailles St Quentin, with the team of Ecole Grégoire Ferrandi

"Note by Note" dinner
 Hervé This, with Le Cordon Bleu Chefs

Molecular dessert at Le Cordon Bleu


Wine and food pairings dinner

Jacques Puisais - Institut Français du Goût

Champagne and food pairings dinner
Under the auspices of Union des Oenologues de Champagne (Champagne Winemakers Association)

Food and wine dinner at Les Crayères



Culinary workshop with Le Cordon Bleu Chefs

Culinary class with Le Cordon Bleu chefs

 

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