Comments on: The Organic Market at Boulevard Raspail, Paris

By: kurzhaar

kurzhaar — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:06:03 +0000

Marketman, as far as artichokes are concerned, there is an early harvest in spring, but normally also a 2nd harvest in mid-autumn (right about the time that winter squash harvest starts). Not sure when you were in Paris but the artichokes were probably *not* out of season.

By: Footloose

Footloose — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:31:46 +0000

Uh oh, I hope it’s not global warming and just a temporary aberration in rainfall pattern. Back here, in spite of the expanding draught, we’re still getting extraordinary great fruits from California. The white-fleshed peaches and nectarines are so sweet and juicy, they are hard to enjoy not wearing a bib and without generating involuntary obscene noises.

By: joyyy

joyyy — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:52:24 +0000

I visit camiguin annually. The last good season for lanzones was probably 2007. They were everywhere during the months of September and October. They sold them for P10/kilo…and they don’t care if you sample even a kilo worth. The abundance was overwhelming. After 2007, there aren’t as many and the cheapest would be P35/kilo and they aren’t always as sweet.

By: EJ

EJ — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:26:00 +0000

Beautiful photos! Ebbalue, you made long for lanzones. Haven’t eaten them for years. Googled that Camiguin festival and read that it’s held every third week of October. Looks like worth a special visit. For atis, try those from Vietnam – always sweet, rich and creamy with hardly any seeds.

By: Gej

Gej — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:26:39 +0000

Baeutufl! Thank you for giving us a peek into how these markets look like. I’m curious, how do they look like at the tail end of the market day? Almost all sold out?
By chance , did you ever get to meet this farmer Joel Thiebault?

By: Footloose

Footloose — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 15:02:19 +0000

@EbbaBlue, if you are fond of lanzones, time your trip home to coincide with the lanzones festival in Camiguin. For atis and all its close cousins, you have to visit Latin America. Or just come and visit Toronto’s many Chinatowns. You have to eat them all though before crossing the border. Once you are caught bringing with you forbidden fruit, they add your name to the circularized register of fruit offenders. You are then set for baggage inspection for life in all the US entry points.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:08:39 +0000

Betchay, I’m not sure if they are technically mud crab, but I think they are crab with roe… Footloose, how you remember all of that and relate it to the post at hand is amazing. EbbaBlue, next time you are home, try and visit the Centris Sunday Market in Quezon City, it has terrific produce and a good plants section. Kass, I have so many posts in my backlog, not enough time to prep and write and post them!

By: Betchay

Betchay — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:55:41 +0000

The last photo….are those mud crabs with aligue?
I love the “freshness” of this post!

By: Footloose

Footloose — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:57:08 +0000

I am fond of the large beans in the 4th shot. I mix them with giant lima beans and serve them à la grecque. I also go out of my way to obtain them for my paella.

Émile Zola actually wrote a novel about the goings on among certain Parisian food merchants, Le Ventre de Paris set in the newly constructed Les Halles (le al) that was demolished in 1971 but your spate of posts on Parisian flowers shops and food markets brings to mind Verlaine and Joyce, particularly:

“Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles et des branches. Et puis voici mon coeur, qui ne bat que pour vous.” Paul Verlaine

“Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes, drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale…” James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

By: EbbbaBlue

EbbbaBlue — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:11:45 +0000

When I went to Philippines last Jan 2014, (I go yearly on summer months) I intentionally booked a hotel close to Farmer Market in QC because I was hoping to find Atis or Lansones which is out of season. No atis, but 1 store carried Lansones from Thailand, and even though it was expensive (P380.00/kilo), I bought 5 kilos.
I love the place, I could have gone around longer but I had to go.
I too love Markets, and next time I visit Pinas again this November, I wanted to checked-out Dapitan and Caloocan markets,