We have been eating together since ancient times. Crossing cultures, countries, and generations, it is an integral part of who we are. Through the food we eat, the way we prepare it, the objects we use at the table or in the kitchen, and the relationships we build around a meal, eating together bears witness to forms of life that unite the material and the symbolic. Through the rituals around food, we gather around a community.

It is in this spirit that the participants of the workshop will imagine and create a big banquet. It will be monumental in scale and elaborate in nature, a living being, set in the middle of nature. 

We will explore all the different aspects of a contemporary banquet, in order to establish a strong link with the environment of Boisbuchet. The participants will work with their hands, their senses, and their imagination. 

In order to realise this project, we will use only what comes from the Domaine and its surroundings. Whether it is the flowers from the meadows or the materials available in the atelier. It will not only be a question of inventing a menu or staging a table, but also of making the table and chairs or thinking of original invitations to send to the guests. We will experiment with wood, vegetables, paint, fabric, wax, paper and anything else we find on our way. 

But of course a banquet is not a banquet without something to eat!

Whether it’s how to grill summer vegetables on an open fire to be eaten on homemade bread, rubbed with olive oil and garlic, or how to bake a cake with parsley and wild flowers, we will also cook delicious and simple recipes which you can make at home. 

Isn't the end of summer the best time for a celebration? To simply remember that we are human beings on this earth?