{"id":179695,"date":"2022-10-25T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/spots\/179695-culinary-backstreets.html"},"modified":"2022-11-03T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T09:15:50","slug":"culinary-backstreets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/news-en\/gastronomy\/179695-culinary-backstreets.html","title":{"rendered":"Culinary Backstreets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-179695 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_12.jpeg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_12-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Culinary Backstreets : Food tour \u00e0 Marseille (boulangerie))\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_12-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_12-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_12-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_12.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_02.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_02-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Culinary Backstreets : Food tour \u00e0 Marseille (Yassine)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_02-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_02-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_02.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_04.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_04-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Culinary Backstreets : Food tour \u00e0 Marseille (Chez Etienne)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_04-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_04.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In 2009, two Americans, Ansel Mullins and Yigal Schleifer, created a blog called Istanbul Eats. In 2010, they published a culinary guide to Istanbul and launched the city\u2019s first tour centered around the local gastronomy, an itinerary that they still follow today. Realizing that their walks were necessary in other cities that they knew and loved, they created other routes in Athens, Barcelona, Mexico City, and Shanghai in 2012 and Culinary Backstreets was born.<\/p>\n<p>During a press trip in 2018, American journalist and former Love Spots contributor, Alexis Steinman, was invited to check out Culinary Backstreet\u2019s Lisbon food tour. \u201cAt first, I refused because I expected a super-clich\u00e9 itinerary. But the team convinced me.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cI spent six unforgettable hours. I learned more about Lisbon, its cuisine, and its history than I would if I had spent several weeks there!\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-179695 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_03.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_03-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Culinary Backstreets : Food tour \u00e0 Marseille (maison payani)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_03-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_03-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_03.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_05.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_05-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Culinary Backstreets : Food tour \u00e0 Marseille (chichi)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_05-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_05-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_05-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_05.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_07.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_07-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Culinary Backstreets : Food tour \u00e0Picone) Marseille (\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_07-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_07-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_07-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_07.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Recognizing that this type of tour needed to be done in Marseille to help tourists understand this singular city, she invited one of Culinary Backstreets\u2019 founders to visit. \u201cIn two hours, he fell in love with our city, its multicultural makeup, its heritage, and it\u2019s diverse cuisine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexis launched the walks in October 2019. After a complicated period due to Covid \u2013 the US borders were closed \u2013 there was enough demand to hire another guide, Chlo\u00e9, a Marseillaise urbanist. Two others have reinforced the team since April 2022: Jenine, a Palestinian-American writer and S\u00e9verine, a Marseillaise who teaches tourism and collective intelligence. Three cultured and passionate people! <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe point of the tours is not to stuff ourselves. We use food to tell stories about the city and to paint an authentic portrait.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to cuisine, the guides discuss culture, politics, history, and architecture on the walks. The clients leave with a better understanding of Marseille and long-lasting memories! Intended for tourists and foreigners at first, the tours now also interest locals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-179695 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_11.jpeg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_11-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Culinary Backstreets : Food tour \u00e0 Marseille (Pizzaiolo))\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_11-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_11-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_11-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_11.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_13.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_13-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_13-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_13-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_13-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_13.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_09.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_09-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Culinary Backstreets : Food tour \u00e0 Marseille (Charcuterie corse)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_09-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_09-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_09-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Culinary-Backstreets_Food-Tour_Marseille_CityGuide_Love-Spots_09.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The current walk, <i>Beyond Bouillabaisse: Diving Into Marseille\u2019s Multicultural Stew, <\/i>starts at the top of the Gare Saint-Charles staircase and ends with a pastis at Bar la Caravelle. En route, clients visit an Armenian supermarket, discover Senegalese pastels, taste Jewish-Tunisian pastries, and many other delights.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alexis has countless anecdotes to share, like during her first tour when, super nervous, she was quickly put at ease when her clients, Canadian tourists, handed out maple syrup candies at every stop in exchange for the makrouts, canistrellis, pastels, and figatelli.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis spirit of sharing is the reason Culinary Backstreets exists, and for me, it is the basis of cooking and eating!\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another memory is when, during a stop in front of a concrete frieze that illustrates the legend of Gyptis and Protis, the founding story of Marseille, one of the building\u2019s residents invited Alexis and her clients up to his apartment. \u201cMy clients were surprised by the warm welcome, especially after having heard so many negative things about Marseille.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The little extra:<\/b> Find tips on where to dine and interesting articles on Marseille\u2019s food scene on Culinary Backstreet\u2019s website.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>By Eric Foucher <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.\u201d  When reading the recipes that Marseillais cherish one quickly understands they are the fruit of centuries of cultural intermingling that have influenced the city\u2019s culinary traditions. This diversity of Marseille and its cuisine is what Culinary Backstreets wants travellers to taste on its food tours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":179595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8670,8529],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[11371,11256,14377,11373,18568,11378,12910],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179696,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179695\/revisions\/179696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179695"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=179695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}