Shopping Bag Archive
And today, I bought salt.Chez Christine Ferber
E. Dehillerin
L'Etoile d'Or
La Punition
Le Campanier, a Lucky Bag of Produce
Le Marché de Gérardmer
Le Quartier Chinois
Le Salon Du Chocolat
Les Abeilles
Look What I Got!
Notes from the Salon du Fromage
Notes from the Salon du Fromage (continued)
Pick-Your-Own Happiness
Retour de marché
The Magic Baker's Store
The Victoria Food Market
May 13, 2005
La Punition
[The Punishment] Punitions is the name given to the delicious, blond, thin, crispy, unique, buttery cookies, made by the world-famous Poilâne bakery. You can purchase them by the weight (200g for roughly 4 euros), but there is a basket of them on the counter for you to help yourself when you buy a quarter, a half, or a whole round of the legen...
May 6, 2005
And today, I bought salt.
...but not just any salt: Maldon sea salt, after so many sources conspired (and most recently the much-linked Slate article and its tempting dandruff analogy) to make me cave in and buy salt at 17.80€ a kilo (4.45€ for the 250g box). Yesterday was a holiday in France ("l'Ascension", which marks the day on which Jesus returned to God: w...
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May 5, 2005
Retour de marché
[Back from the market] Saturday mornings are always something of a dilemma for me, or actually a trilemma, which I thought wasn't an actual word until I looked it up. I can either sleep in, go to the pool for a swim, or go to the Batignolles market -- each of the three activities fulfilling an equally important need. It is the third option that ...
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September 9, 2004
Pick-Your-Own Happiness
One of the things I love about driving around the countryside with Maxence is that we share the same enthusiasm for anything that's hand-painted on a wooden sign and planted onto the side of the road. Admittedly, it is the signs advertising edibles and drinkables that receive the most attention, but we also like to think that we could very well s...
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September 7, 2004
Chez Christine Ferber
Maxence and I are spending a few blissful and brightly sunny days, hidden out in my parents' vacation house in the Vosges mountains. Today, we took a happy little daytrip to Alsace, the region just on the other side of the mountain, famous for its wines, its storks, and little houses with pointy roofs and exposed beams. Amongst other fabulous th...
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September 6, 2004
Le Quartier Chinois
Saturday was the first day of my vacation, and Maxence and I decided to take a little trip to Asia : all it took was a twenty-minute motorcycle ride to the Parisian Chinatown where I had, for reasons I cannot fathom, never been before. We sat down at a Vietnamese restaurant for a bo-bun (a delicious salads of noodles and beef with lemongrass, so...
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July 20, 2004
Le Marché de Gérardmer
The house my parents own in the Vosges (a mountain range in the East of France, if you haven't been following this blog as closely as you should) is located outside a small town called La Bresse. When we're there on vacation, part of the food shopping is conducted in La Bresse itself -- at the grocery store for basics, and at a charcuterie and tw...
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July 7, 2004
Les Abeilles
Les Abeilles is a tiny little store perched at the top of the Butte-aux-Cailles, in the 13th arrondissement, and incidently just a skip and a hop from my office (which has, in passing, been trying quite hard to keep me away from my regular blogging schedule, sending me this way and that, thus tragically depriving me of a decent Internet connectio...
March 14, 2004
Look What I Got!
Sometimes it's the nicest and most heart-warming thing to see how well your own personal Maxence knows you. He went on a business trip to Helsinki (in Finland, for the geographically challenged among us, I certainly am one of them) for a couple of days last week. When we got home on the night of his return - after we went to see Air brilliantly p...
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March 4, 2004
Notes from the Salon du Fromage (continued)
And here is the second batch of notable tidbits from the Salon du Fromage! (Read the first part here.) - Mont d'Or is a cow cheese, soft inside a thicker rind, wrapped in pine bark and sold in a round wooden box. A popular and wonderful way to eat it is the "Boîte Chaude" (Hot Box), where the Mont d'Or is oven-baked in its box, with a little whi...
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March 3, 2004
Notes from the Salon du Fromage
Is there such a thing as eating too much cheese? I think not, although I did try my best at the 8th edition of the Salon du Fromage, last Sunday. The Salon du Fromage is held every other year during the Salon de l'Agriculture, at the huge Porte de Versailles exhibition center. While the Salon de l'Agriculture is open to the general public - hord...
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February 26, 2004
L'Etoile d'Or
L'Etoile d'Or is a little candy store in the rue Fontaine, sprung right out of a fairy tale. It is but a ten-minute walk from where I live, so I find it charmingly ironic that I owe its discovery to my Bay Area blog-friend, Derrick, who mentioned it to me in a recent email : he and his wife Melissa have taken several trips to Paris, and food lo...
February 8, 2004
Le Campanier, a Lucky Bag of Produce
Campanier is a porte-manteau pun on "campagne" (countryside), and "panier" (basket). It is also the name of a cool service in which you get a weekly basket of seasonal organic produce. The little Pousse-Pousse boutique at which I recently bought my sprouting gear happens to be a pickup point, and we decided to go for the four-week test subscripti...
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November 25, 2003
The Victoria Food Market
On the last Saturday of our Seychelles vacation, we were on the island of Mahé, the largest and most populated of the archipelago (ooh, a good 150 km2 and 70.000 inhabitants!), which holds the small capital city, Victoria. Only a handful of streets, but still, it’s the biggest of the country! It has a daily food market, and Saturday morning...
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November 1, 2003
Le Salon Du Chocolat
A Chocolate Trade Show - has anybody ever heard of a better concept? The Paris one takes place every year in late October, when the weather gets a little chilly and Christmas is getting near and people need to warm their hearts and stock up on chocolate goodness. Passionate as we are about our chocolate, Marie-Laure and I just had to attend, and ...
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October 1, 2003
The Magic Baker's Store
Last weekend, while I was in the 1st arrondissement to buy kitchenware, I suddenly remembered my grandmother telling me about a professional baking supplies store she used to go to when she was still baking for four sons. The store is called "G. Detou", which happens to be a pun, and I can't decide whether it is completely lame, deliciously old-...
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September 30, 2003
E. Dehillerin
E. Dehillerin is an excellent cooking utensils outlet located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It's a totally no-frills store, that has stayed pretty much the same since it was first opened in 1820 (something tells me they didn't sell silicon baking mats back then, though). It's open to individuals, but is mainly targeted at professionals. One...