At the time when the Louis Gernet Centre worked on ‘The cuisine of sacrifice’, and when I became aware of sacrifices, I hear at the Jean-Pierre Vernant seminar a presentation by Michel Cartry on sacrifice in Africa. He discovered the very formal aspect of these rites, and his research has always remained for me a reference, an incentive to deepen and an effective point of comparison. In remembrance of this meeting, I would like to present, in memory of...