FCCM 2026 — Quebec City · November 18–20 · Save the date

“From knowledge to
the power to act”

Food is Care

3rd Francophone Conference on Culinary Medicine

FCCM 2026 — Quebec City

November 18, 19 and 20, 2026

Université Laval · École hôtelière de la Capitale

“The taste of care, the care of taste”

Please note. FCCM is a Francophone event: all sessions, workshops and materials are delivered in French. Registration and accommodation booking are also handled in French — see the French version of this page for details.

Three days, three highlights

Preliminary program

The detailed program (speaker names, full schedule) will be published at the official opening of registration, expected very soon.

Pre-conference —
Public-facing evening

Wednesday, November 18

Université Laval
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

“Women's health through food: what medicine has not had time to tell you.”

A public-facing evening, hosted and open to dialogue.

Full scientific day

Thursday, November 19

École hôtelière de la Capitale · 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Six thematic blocks: towards a new medicine, food heritage, sensory alterations and the pleasure of eating, cardiometabolic prevention and planetary nutrition, communication and behavioral determinants.

Immersive culinary workshops and networking.

Thematic
half-day

Friday, November 20

École hôtelière de la Capitale · 8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

“Persistent food poverty: the sign of a dysfunctional democracy?”

Agro-industrial systems, voices from the field, food sovereignty, circular economy, collective levers.

“No famine has ever taken place in a functioning democracy.” — Amartya Sen

Format & accreditation

What you should know about FCCM

  • Duration: 1.5 days
  • Capacity: 80 to 100 professionals
  • Structure: scientific lectures + hands-on culinary workshops + demonstrations + pedagogical meals + networking
  • Workshops: groups of 16 (8 pairs), supervised by one certified chef-instructor
  • Accreditation: continuing education credits
  • Recognition by professional orders and associations

For whom

Anyone who wants to rethink care through food

Health professionals (physicians, dentists, pharmacists, dietitians, kinesiologists, etc.), academic researchers, professional chefs, advanced students. Any professional who wants to rethink the link between food and care.

You will leave with

  • Pedagogical tools that transfer into your practice.
  • An embodied understanding of food as an act of care.
  • A renewed clinical posture: no longer prescribing norms, but activating capabilities.
  • A Francophone community of practice.
  • Accredited continuing medical education credits.

Venue

Where it takes place