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%C0 As part of the 2026 Science Festival, the CIST is presenting %AB Once Upon a Time: The Meal %BB, a fun and interactive event exploring the history of our food. A cabinet of curiosities, unusual objects, quizzes, and small experiments will help visitors discover how mealtime has become a moment of sharing and togetherness. For ages 6–8 and up.

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Presentation

Once Upon a Time, There Was a Meal

As part of the 2026 Science Festival, themed “Scholarly Flavors,” the Center for Scientific and Technical Imagination (CIST) invites you on an original exploration of the history of the meal.

Eating is essential for all living beings. But sharing a meal, inventing recipes, establishing meal times, and creating traditions or rituals is a profoundly human adventure!

Why do we eat at certain times? Where do breakfast and dessert come from? Why do meals differ so much from one country to another? How did food become a pleasure, a moment of sharing, and sometimes even a spectacle?

Through a cheerful cabinet of curiosities, stunning images, unusual objects, quizzes, and small hands-on activities, embark on a journey from the Paleolithic era to the kitchens of today. Science, tasty anecdotes, movies, cartoons, and popular culture come together for a friendly and often humorous presentation centered on one of humanity’s greatest inventions: the shared meal!

And to kick things off… the program begins with a snack!

Dates of the festivities

the 07/10/2026
from 16h30 to 18h30

Types

  • Guided tour

Topics

  • Food / Nutrition
  • Historical

Categories

  • Cultural

Further information

Free access : yes

Mandatory reservation : yes

Address

Médiathèque Confluence

place Francis Morand
34700 LODEVE

GPS coordinates : 43.7318603 / 3.3165558

+33 6 81 78 54 36
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