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 Aveyron. It 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 Parisbreakfast. If you'd like to receive Parisbreakfast letters 💌 maps and watercolors in your mailbox 📮 look in my Etsy shop.
Bonne Monday PBers ☕️🥐🇫🇷💋🐻
