Last week I posted about a famous farmer's market in the United States, this week I'm visiting one of many wonderful markets that can be found all over Europe. This one is in Paris.
A little over 10 years ago, I spent 10 wonderful days in Paris with a group of friends. While we were there, a few of us decided to spend one whole day at the most famous cooking school in the world, the Le Cordon Bleu. We met at the school where we were introduced to our instructor/chef and his translator. After a brief set of introductions, our chef took us out to a wonderful Farmer's Market to pick out items that would make up is class demonstrations. That's our chef above in the top photo examining the gorgeous vegetables on display.
As you might imagine, the assortment of cheeses was very impressive.
And, the variety of fresh fish and seafood was something I'll never see at the Phoenix Farmer's Market.
Fresh eggs! Souffle' anyone?
The butcher was happy to cut up some meat for the chef to take back with him.
After visiting the the market, the chef made his way back to the school while the translator and another instructor took us on a tour of a famous bakery. (I'll post about that at another time.)
When we returned to the school, we found that the chef had whipped up a wonderful lunch for us using the things he purchased at the Farmer's Market. With a little glass of French rose', it was a perfect lunch before we entered to classroom to learn some new cooking tricks.
I'll post more about my Le Cordon Bleu adventures in the future.
5 comments:
Yes the French farmersmarkets are so great, we don't have that variety here either. When we are on holiday in France we always enjoy a visit to the markets.
Which neighborhood was this particular market?
Excellent shots!
For some odd reason, Le Cordon Bleu has a school here. Not in other Canadian cities, just Ottawa.
Roseann, I'm sorry but I don't remember what neighborhood it was in.
What a treat Sharon, the market and the cooking class with un chef francais 😊 I don't think I'd have got past the cheeses!
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