Maxime Michaud

Institut Paul Bocuse | paul bocuse · Research Center

In the context of immigration, immigrants’ foodways in their country of origin meet those practiced in the host country, causing transformations in food practices. This research focuses on the hybridization practices carried out by Brazilian immigrants who develop small businesses in the food sector in Lyon, France. Motivated by their cooking skill...

In order to resist precariousness and to boost autonomy in their new country of residence, Brazilian women cook dishes associated with their homeland and sell them to other Brazilians in the city of Lyon. Through informal activities, not legally declared in France, adapted from their country of origin, they alleviate the social and economic difficu...

Les immigrés français établis au Brésil vivent le plus souvent dans les grandes métropoles du Sudeste. Toutefois, quelques-uns ont choisi d’immigrer à Salvador (Bahia). Porteuses d’influences afro-brésiliennes marquées, Salvador a la particularité de compter la plus grande part de population auto-identifiée noire du pays. À l’instar des autres métr...

Commensality (the act of eating together) is studied in a range of disciplines and often considered important for social communion, order, health and well-being, while simultaneously being understood as in decline (especially the family meal). However, such claims are also contested in various ways. In this paper, we discuss the expanding field of...

There exists a normative representation of family meals in contemporary Western societies which is promoted as imperative through public health programs, larger discourses and by some studies in the nutritional and public health research fields. Family meals, also called domestic commensality, are represented as convivial events and are associated...

Dans l’industrie de la « chasse au trophée » telle que pratiquée de nos jours, il semblerait que l’animal soit largement réduit à une marchandise dont la valeur dépend du trophée potentiel qu’il représente : on est ainsi facilement tenté de croire que ce type de pratique constitue le niveau zéro de la relation à l’animal, en tout cas vu sous l’angl...