{"id":3166,"date":"2021-04-08T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justinegrosset.com\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2024-09-18T16:35:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:35:51","slug":"temoignagerenardsgourmets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justinegrosset.com\/en\/temoignagerenardsgourmets\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview \u2013 Les images bien l\u00e9ch\u00e9es des Renards Gourmets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les Images Bien L\u00e9ch\u00e9es des Renards Gourmets<\/h1>\n

Gastronomy awakens our senses by evoking much more than just taste. For us, Renards Gourmets, a talented duo of creative gourmets with a sharp tongue, explore the visual as well as the cultural, historical and philosophical significance of our plates. On the menu? Baroque impressions, flavors of yesteryear, cinematic delights, but above all, an exaltation to savor life and munch its great and small joys to the full, without yielding to convention.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who's behind Les Renards Gourmets?<\/h2>\n

We are a loving, artistic couple united by a passion for goodness, beauty and justice<\/strong>. Esther is the photographer, Morgan the cook. To both of us, we write the d\u00e9cor and culinary styling for our creations with four hands before photographing them<\/strong>. We're both self-taught, from working-class artistic and creative families.<\/p>\n

In your opinion, is culinary writing a vast world too often reduced to recipe cards?<\/h2>\n

Of course... If some people turn it into a collection of recipe cards, that's unfortunate. This means missing out on fascinating books or articles that take a closer look at what constitutes both an absolute necessity<\/strong>, a great epicurean pleasure and one of the sociological, historical and cultural markers<\/strong> we have at our disposal.<\/p>\n

\u00abCooking is an absolute vital necessity, a great epicurean pleasure and one of the richest sociological, historical and cultural markers we have at our disposal.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pomegranate \u00a9 Renards Gourmets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Do you have an example of this culinary embodiment of a culture's heritage?<\/h2>\n

When you look at Spanish cuisine, you can't help but be struck by the link between the great American conquests, Arab invasions, Jewish communities and local populations. Most of its ingredients come from invasions: corn, tomatoes, beans, squash, chocolate, chillies, peppers... Spanish culinary identity traces the history of this people<\/strong>, The tradition of preparing and eating offal in Rome is quite simple. In Rome, there's a great tradition of preparing and eating offal, for a very simple reason: the Vatican appropriated all the noble cuts, leaving the lower classes with only the \u00ablower cuts\u00bb. We are both what we eat and what we don't eat!<\/strong><\/p>\n

As photographers, do you also see yourselves as food stylists?<\/h2>\n

Yes. When we started out, we immediately had the desire not to \u00absimply\u00bb photograph our plate, but to \"photograph\" our food. create and materialize a shared vision around art and food<\/strong>. This is what it's all about the art of living<\/strong>. Little by little, the presentation of the dish, the choice of crockery, the decor - everything became a subject for reflection. We work in a seasonal way, our desire is born from the chromatic and natural conception of photography and food.<\/strong>. Without culinary styling, it almost becomes packshot, a highly technical style of photography for which we have a great deal of respect, but which for us does not fall within the realm of emotion and artistic expression. Although... nothing's set in stone, everything's a matter of non-definitive opinions, so it's sometimes artistic packshot! Art can verge on the commercial marketing concept, while advertising and fashion can satisfy major emotional and aesthetic aims.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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