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Monday, October 11, 2021

Fall Marché de Pays Aveyron 2021, Bercy Paris

 

Are you wearing your Fall 🍁clothes yet?

Have you bought any Fall flowers🍂?

Fall is the time for French regional foodie events. I’d like to get away outside Paris more on the weekends and I thought this weekend was the Fete du Brie in Melun…but it was last weekend 😬 Next year🤞

Instead I went to the Marché de Pays AveyronIt seems a good idea to place the department of Aveyon (26 min video in French) on the map.

Every October the Marché de Pays Aveyron takes place in Bercy 12e. Its been 3 years and I wasn’t going to miss it. Portions tend to be family-size.

They don’t understand what an ‘individual’ part/ portion is. Buy the whole cake or nuttin’. Full of myrtille/blueberry preserves, though they look like Philadelphia cinnamon buns. Thank goodness for the big free samples. I ate them and bought a sacristan to justify.

The marché is a ‘populaire’ event (for regular folks) with many, many free tastes. 

Especially their famous regional sheep cheese, Roquefort. I bought a part(1/4 for 12€). This tastes nothing like the packaged stuff I usually buy in the supermarché.

Another must-taste regional specialty is hot Aligot (mashed potatoes, localTomme cheese, a ton of garlic plus grilled sausage) eaten with a tumbler of beer of course.

But the lines were block-long and I don’t yet have French patience. Next year…

No long lines for fresh regional walnuts in the shell. I bought a kilo(2.2 pds). 

The marrons looked tempting.


As did the tins of foie gras…

Steaks from the grass-fed Aubrac cattle are some of the tastiest in France and always in demand at the marché.

One thing I did have patience for was these mohair winter socks.

I had seen at the fair in 2015. 

But she only had knee-highs. No short socks. I may have to visit Aveyron to get them! Or wait until next year and pray 🙏 Or find another farm. An automnal walk through the Jardin des Plantes ended a beautiful sunny, crisp day. And back to the drawing✏️ table. Thanks for reading ParisbreakfastIf you'd like to receive Parisbreakfast letters 💌 maps and watercolors in your mailbox 📮 look in my Etsy shop. 
Bonne Monday PBers ☕️🥐🇫🇷💋🐻


11 comments:

  1. Thanks for the Aligot information- what a delicious dish and can’t wait to try it sometime 😘

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  2. SO good to see these regional food fairs back in Paris. You got us to go to a Bretagne fair in Montmartre way back when…we’re hooked…they are fabulous! I would have waited on line forever for that aligoté, I love it! And those cozy, woolly socks! Definitely time to take out the fall clothes here in New England…for better or worse…we have no choice. Enjoy those walnuts. ❤️

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  3. Oh, I can taste all those food and feel warm wool! My eyes loves colours of fall... <3

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  4. Annette9:13 AM

    Bonjour!
    You make my day….Merci!!! Bon voyages!!!

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  5. Sybille10:00 AM

    SO glad fêtes des pays have returned!! Will they be all over by November?
    To make way for the fêtes de Noel??
    Craving aligot!

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  6. Bonnie D11:01 AM

    Wow, what fun this would be!!

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  7. so enjoying your news feed and to say thank you for all the marvelous views and commentary during hard times!

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  8. Bonnie, They are like country farm fairs in the city.
    Wish they would figure out about ‘individual’ slices/part…

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  9. This post brought back the memory of the day you took us to Les Marches du Sud-Ouest and showed us how to go about getting tastes of all the marvelous foods. It was such a wonderful day and a highlight of the trip. It made all the difference being with someone who knew what they were doing as when we went alone we were very intimidated. Thanks, Carol.

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  10. Aligot for lunch, grass fed steak for dinner, mohair socks for bed.
    What could be better!❤️

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  11. Still too warm and slightly humid to break out the cozy longsleeves, but your pics motivate me to manifest cooler weather even harder.

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