Meanwhile, we are enjoying pre-Easter, which is extra enticing with chocolates (not JUST fish!) absolutely everywhere, including a basket of gold-wrapped eggs at the poissonerie this morning. Other Easter novelties at the market include asparagus, juicy radishes, scallops, and razor clams both in their shells, and both fresh from the sea in Brittany, and small …
Go to Recipe Go to Video It’s spring, and all the leaves, buds, bunnies, and everything else in nature is bursting awake during this most gloriously alive season! For me, this holiday is the ultimate fête of life, and I grew up celebrating it with a big Easter brunch, an Easter basket filled with goodies, …
Go to Video This year, we attended the Taste of Paris, one of many events organized in Paris around gastronomy and the culinary arts. Temporary Grand Palais The “Taste” is held at the Grand Palais which, for now, is closed to the public. Given it is Paris, the people in control said to themselves, “We …
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 A typical French breakfast consists of baguette with butter and jam, a croissant or pain au chocolate, maybe a chausson aux pommes (apple turnover), and a big bowl of steaming coffee. It’s a marvel, a magical assemblage of delicious elements. Steer Roping Needs More A cowboy or girl might not be able …
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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There are smiles on Parisian faces, everywhere. The difference from confinement to de-confinement is patently obvious. People are simply thrilled to be able to sip a coffee at a café, to have a beer a Spritz or a glass of rose on the terrace. Paris has become an outdoor dining room, and everyone wants to …
Go to Video Market as Map of the Season We are heavily into spring now but produce and fruit haven’t caught up. They never do. We humans are so ready to leave winter behind, sit in the sun, eat sweet green peas, strawberries, asparagus and baby new lettuces, yet nature takes her course. Winter and …
