Description

A city cannot be eaten, but with a focus on food, you can get to know it in an original way. Throughout history, both residents and visitors have been daily supplied with food and drink. It is from this unique perspective that this walking guide allows you to taste and enjoy Ghent.
Two beautifully mapped walks introduce you to Ghent during its prosperous periods: the late Middle Ages, with the fourteenth century as its peak, and the nineteenth-century Artevelde city awakened by the industrial revolution.

In both periods, the system of food supply and distribution helped shape the city. Feeding a city without refrigerators or
trucks requires a different organization than today’s.
Discover how medieval Ghent fed nearly seventy thousand mouths daily, where the provisions came from, and how they were sold. Or stroll through the area where not long ago a large slaughterhouse stood, a symbol of modernity and progress.

One thing is certain: this walking guide will only make you hungrier for Ghent.

GentenaarNoël Callebaut is a director, actor, and storyteller. In addition he has been active as a social worker for over thirty years. He is passionate about the many anectotes and stories of the "ordinary woman and man" in the grand history of Ghent

Dirk Holemans is an author, researcher and coordinator of Oikos-Thmink Tank for Social and Ecological Change. He has long had a soft spot for Ghent: formerly as a city councillor, now as a city storyteller with a great appetite for historical studies about his city.