International audienceDespite its categorization as a subclass of the cultural geography, the French food geography struggles to integrate the theoretical and conceptual contributions inherited from the « cultural turn » which has marked the social sciences since the 1980s. This paper aims to consider the epistemology of the discipline and to understand why this encounter has only partially occured thanks to the analysis of its modes of emergence. In fact, the successive paradigms of determinism and quantitativism that used to prevail in the French geography and whose legacy still remains in many contemporary researches, cannot analyze anymore the social and spatial dynamics of the consumers’ foodways in a globalized context. Within this sc...