August 16, 2008

Farmers Market, Collonges sous Salège

by Sonja

Totally classic Sunday market at the border of France and Switzerland. There is a butcher, a fishmonger, a couple cheesemakers and bakers. Everyone walking around with baskets and baguettes.

Really delicious fruits, especially the best cantalope type melons that you can peel with a knife, their skins are so thin!




The boucherie dude slices the large slabs of preserved meats for you and lays them out in perfectly fanned patterns on waxed paper.




This was my favorite cheese choice from there. So thin that you didn’t spread it; you just dripped it. Actually it was not so heavy but so silky and light+

I went to Germany a few weeks ago and got just a couple of things…


Kayoko, you would have loved this. I don’t think they have rum raisin flavor in the US? Well if they do please run out and buy it is amazing and totally smells and tastes alcoholic. Delicious. I also bought blood orange white choco (summer) flavor which I will not be showing because it tasted like floral plastic.

My friend described this as “kids beer.” Like what, have you never had kids beer before? Notice the children holding hands and frolicking on the label. It tasted like coke and beer mixed together, which I guess is a popular thing to do there as well. Oh those Germans.

3 Comments

  • kayoko
    Posted August 17, 2008 at 9:02 am

    that salami is gorgeous. i love the wax paper. it’s the little things, right?

  • kayoko
    Posted August 18, 2008 at 9:34 am

    also, isn’t rum raisin chocolate the best thing ever??? i don’t understand how they don’t import that here. makes no sense.

  • Sonja
    Posted August 20, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Dude, rum raisin is like the best flavor ever…I mean along with pistachio and fig and a few other things…but seriously why no rum raisin choco! We should make some, actually, when I get back.

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