ABSTRACT
Today in the city of Bordeaux new open-air markets are sprouting up, along with many events exhibiting food products in public space. Bordeaux is the major city and administrative centre for the region of Aquitaine, which is characterised by a relatively high proportion of inhabitants involved in agriculture. Bordeaux inhabitants know they live in a rich region where a great diversity of quality foods is at hand. Relying on the anthropology and sociology of food, the author would stress some of the characteristics of hyper modern eaters. Food provisioning in Bordeaux underwent considerable changes. Les Capucins, long called the belly of Bordeaux, remains the major daily food market. The gradual decline of traditional municipal covered markets in Bordeaux has run parallel to the development of supermarkets since the 1970s. Markets retain the illusion of sociability, the pleasure of urban life on a human scale, where the crowd is friendly, in what one might call the anti-modern city.
