“Man eats and will eat as long as he is a man”: Jul and Aïtor Alfonso present “The hunger for history”

A history of the world through gastronomy: this is the ambition of a book which has just been published, a fascinating illustrated album signed by the designer Jul and the culinary critic Aïtor Alfonso, professor of literature and screenwriter, aka “Sauce gribiche” on social networks. “Aïtor suggested that I tell the history of the world through this prism of the plate”says Jul. “He said to me ‘do you know what we ate at Woodstock during the festival?’ or ‘do you know what the Romans ate in Pompeii before the volcano erupted?’ And that thing ultimately triggered this book which is a walk through time from Lascaux to the International Space Station.”

“We learn that contrary to the representation we have of them, they are not savages who ate mammoth steaks all day long, that in fact they have a much more omnivorous diet, and that in Lascaux precisely we We hunt mammoth very little, we hunt reindeer a lot, because it’s a cold time, they have herbal preparations, seasonings, etc.”cites the latter as an example.