Around 40,000 meals a day will be served during the Paris Olympics, using produce largely sourced in France and the country's vaunted gastronomy will be put to the ultimate test
France's vaunted gastronomy will be put to the ultimate test when organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympics have to feed 15,000 athletes.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed the "gastronomic meal of the French" on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010.
"The gastronomic meal emphasises togetherness, the pleasure of taste, and the balance between human beings and the products of nature," UNESCO said.