Christmas and New Year's in Paris are all about food, particularly luxury foods, such as foie gras, caviar, chocolates, fabulous pastries, vacherin de mont d'or (see my post "The Best Cheese in the World"), champagne, fine wine, etc. This year's offerings include numerous modern takes on the traditional bûche de noël, or Christmas log, which used to be a rustic representation of a gnarly log.
There is a real risk of sensory overload if you hang around the famous gourmet places, as you can see from the pictures below.
Modern bûches de noël at Dalloyau and Lenôtre
Hediard
Monster truffle at Maison de la Truffe
Caviar Kaspia
Birds at market
(Note the clothing for the
chapons de Bresse)
Birds at market
The French are so good at beautiful presentations of ingredients--you know they will taaste wonderful just by looking at them
ReplyDeleteI guess that is why it is called leche vitrine, n'est-ce pas?
Mon dessert préféré reste les cannelés à la Robert ....C'est si bon!!! Petite question; quels sont pour vous les meilleurs chocolats? marques et pays? je viens d'avoir une longue discussion à la française sur ce sujet.
ReplyDeleteCaroline:
ReplyDeleteThanks for the question, which has prompted me to do a full post today. Let me know what you and your French friend think.