Investigations about common food in essays of a 18th century traveller in Italy and all over Sicily: Jean Baptiste Labat 

Abstract

Jean Baptiste Labat, was a French monk of the Dominican order, who lived in the eighteenth cen tury. After obtaining permission from the superiors of his order, he embarked on an evangelizing mission to the French West Indies of the Caribbean. However, he became famous not only thanks to his work of evangelize but especially because he was one of the first travellers and writers of the modern era who in his stories of travels through southern Spain (Cádiz) and Italy (mainly Sicily) introduced the Italian cuisine and gastronomy of eighteenth-century speaking about food, and “ foreign” productions and traditions.