The Ides of March are behind us, thank goodness. Why thank goodness? The Ides (March 15), is considered malevolent by some, a reference to Julius Cesar’s upending his countrypeople’s festive schedule by switching the new year to January instead of March. They never forgave him. He didn’t touch Easter (whew), which is before us, …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Reindeer, bear, elk, moose, buckthorn juice…it’s all daily fare at the Vanha Kauppahalli, or Old Market in downtown Helsinki, on the shore of the Baltic Sea. This fanciful brick building was built in 1889, and its interior is even more lovely than its exterior, with carved wooden stalls that …
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Go to Recipe Go to Video The first time I visited a farmers’ market in France was on rue de Buci, in Paris. I was on an errand for one of the chef’s at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine, fresh off the plane from Seattle, jet-lagged and shy about my French. But spinach was on …
Go to Recipe Go to Video I got to the market at 8 a.m. and, as usual, I wasn’t the first in line. I had barely enough time to contemplate what I wanted to put in my basket, what would compose my menu for the next several days, before it was my turn. I saw …
Go to Video Oh how I love the “marché alimentaire,” the farmers’ market. In Paris, in Louviers, in anywhere I can find one! The market is the theater of life, brought together in all its variety both in the vendors who hawk their wares, and the customers of every ilk who stroll through, rush with …
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