The banquet people had dreamed of
In the exceptional setting of Anderlecht’s former Veterinary School, the Centre de Gastronomie Historique invited guests to discover seventeenth-century gastronomy around a fully staged historical table.
L’Art de bien traiter
The four-service menu drew on recipes from L’Art de bien traiter, an anonymous cookery book published in 1674. Hypocras, white and red wine, lemonade, orangeade and water accompanied the banquet.
Four hundred years of La Fontaine
The event complemented a conference day held by the Bibliothèque des Riches-Claires for the four-hundredth anniversary of Jean de La Fontaine’s birth, bringing cuisine, literature and table history together.
Remembering the event
This page preserves the memory of a banquet held in 2021, when a Covid Safe Ticket was required at the entrance. The announced price was €75 per person, drinks included.
