The Global Food Heritage Project identifies the places connected with our food heritage and spotlights the people who continue to preserve these sites today.

Food Heritage Sites:

Where Foods Began

Agricultural Technology

Farms

Ranches

Meat Industry

Seafood Industry

Orchards, Groves
& Plantations

Wineries & Breweries

Markets

Kitchens, Dining Halls & Cafeterias

Restaurants

Taverns, Pubs, Cafes & Teahouses

Processing Sites

Baking

Famous Recipe Sites

Factories

Famous Foodies

Corporate Origins

Historic Food Events

Museums & Exhibits

Remembering Food Places Past

Global Food Heritage Project:

Food Places Remembered

Illiers-Combray, France: (top) packages of madeleines are still available from the original bakery where Marcel Proust's Aunt Leonie purchased them for her visiting nephew. Lower left: outside the bakery; lower right The House of Aunt Leonie now the Marcel Proust Museum.

“The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom , my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.”
--Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

A holy site for some, this is the place of the madeleine moment, the house visited by the young Marcel Proust in summers as a boy . He was six when he first came to stay with his paternal uncle and aunt, Jules and Elisabeth Amiot and by the time he was nine the visits ended---his family decided his asthma worsened here. We learned from the ticket taker who sits behind a huge table of Proustiana at the entry that Auntie never baked madeleines herself—she always bought them from the bakery around the corner, still there today. You can visit this charming house and garden or simply peek in through the gates and then trot up the street to buy madeleines.

More "food places remembered" will be listed here.
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