I spent a month in SW France in 1996 doing nothing but going to local farmers markets and then going back to a rented 1600's house and cooking it all up for supper. Bliss.
I was thinking about how we Americans don't, as a culture, build more than a few things into our list of pleasures--football, movies, cookouts, stuff like that. But the French take deep pleasure in a wide variety of things and build accessibility to those things into the economy and the way of life. I love it that it's quite hard to find a supermarket, and when you do, it's nothing like our sterile aisles of too many choices.
I spent a month in SW France in 1996 doing nothing but going to local farmers markets and then going back to a rented 1600's house and cooking it all up for supper. Bliss.
I was thinking about how we Americans don't, as a culture, build more than a few things into our list of pleasures--football, movies, cookouts, stuff like that. But the French take deep pleasure in a wide variety of things and build accessibility to those things into the economy and the way of life. I love it that it's quite hard to find a supermarket, and when you do, it's nothing like our sterile aisles of too many choices.
It has been a nightmare, true.
But hold to the Merry Christmas regardless!
Aren’t you clever to be in Paris for Christmas time! 🎄🎁 Have a merry, merry Christmas!
Yes, I thought I managed it quite well :) Merry Christmas to you and Elisabeth and the girls!
Thanks, Em. 2025 has been a nightmare, 24/7. Mondo bizarro. I'm going to the dog park for an hour.