Fooding

Interesting article in the New Yorker this week about a new French food movement – Le Fooding – which is essentially motivated by a desire for French cuisine to become more dynamic and current or risk becoming formulaic and antiquated.

Matthew Yglesias » In Praise of Short Menus 2010

Paris-based gastro-group Le Fooding is celebrating some of the city's freshest food talents with a series of dinner cruises on the Seine next weekend.

Sites & Sightings: New on the Travel Scene 2011

My last 'festival' meal was a bit more upscale: Suckling pig confit with summer fruit mostarda was served in the glamorous confines of the PS1 gallery garden in New York, while Grizzly Bear and Dan the Automator provided the soundtrack at Le Fooding.

Honest Cooking: Rock n' Rolls: The Summer Of Food Festivals Honest Cooking 2011

My last 'festival' meal was a bit more upscale: Suckling pig confit with summer fruit mostarda was served in the glamorous confines of the PS1 gallery garden in New York, while Grizzly Bear and Dan the Automator provided the soundtrack at Le Fooding.

Honest Cooking: Rock n' Rolls: The Summer Of Food Festivals Honest Cooking 2011

Chef Daniel Boulud (left) points to chef Inaki Aizpitarte's menu at a September 2009 Le Fooding event in New York.

Let Them Eat Foie Gras! French Food Fights Back 2010

Sounds like a great time and a lot more food than I got at Le Fooding that night.

Diary of a 2009 Vendy Awards Judge | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2009

This fall, after two years of running extravagant "urban picnics" at MoMA PS1 in Queens, with cutting-edge French and American chefs, the French gastronomic group Le Fooding will move to Manhattan and hold a music event with food and drinks, as well as a series of rotating dinners.

NYT > Home Page By FLORENCE FABRICANT 2011

In France, he said, the grand three-star temples no longer seem to matter as much to Le Fooding generation.

NYT > Home Page By JEFF GORDINIER 2011

Sign up for the Eater NY newsletter preview of the promotional art for the September Le Fooding event, wherein NYC chefs like David Chang, Nate Appleman,

Eater NY 2010

Fooding "means to eat and drink with feeling -- to recognize that one eats with the nose, the eyes, the mouth, with everything that makes us human," which is not really the most succinct or unpretentious of mission statements but OK, France!

Politics Associated Press 2010