Definition:

creative gastronomy, the art of innovative cooking and conscious eating

Que penses-tu du Fooding ? - What do you think of the Fooding movement?

Notes: Coined by the French journalist Alexandre Cammas in 1999*, the word Fooding is meant to be a contraction of "food" and "feeling." However, in looking at it, there is no indication that the "ing" came from "feeling" as opposed to any other word like eating, choking, or wandering.


Maybe "Foodling" would have been more accurate. :-)

I find it especially interesting that a franglais word was invented for a French food movement that was created to challenge both traditional gastronomy (for which France is famed) and nouvelle cuisine (which was, itself, a rejection of traditional French gastronomy).

Click the little graphic below to hear Fooding pronounced in French.

Official site:Le Fooding

Official (if not quite synonymous) French equivalents:gastronomie, art/plaisir de la table, art culinaire, bien-manger, bonne chère

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*Source:A Taste of Le Fooding - France Magazine

Pronunciation: [fu deen(g)]