In the archives: Lyon, capital of gastronomy
The formula, invented in 1925 by one of the first critics of the 20th century, establishes the singular link between Lyon and its gastronomy, an allegory of a cliché of Lyonnaise identity and a memorial anchor of indisputable evidence, as the city of Lyon has been renowned for the art of good eating for centuries.
The bon mot dates from 1925. Man of letters, journalist, humorist and good eater (1 meter 80 and 120 kilos), Maurice Edmond Sailland, alias Curnonsky, invented, with his Swiss friend Marcel Rouff (posterity will remember his novel La Vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant, gourmet, freely adapted for the cinema in 2023, with Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche), nothing less than the “gastronomic guide”, by publishing a culinary tour of France in twenty-eight volumes.
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