Jean-Robert Pitte
Jean-Robert Pitte, professor of geography, is the president of the University of Paris IV Panthéon-Sorbonne and has published 13 books, among them Gastronomie Française/French Gastronomy (Fayard, 1991), published in the U.S. by the University of Columbia Press in its Arts and Traditions of the Table Series (2002), and translated into Japanese and Portuguese as well. His passion for wine was earlier established in Le Vin et le Divin (Fayard, 2004). His Histoire du paysage français (Tallandier, 1983) was honored by the Académie française.