[Leica] PESO: food shopping in France

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Slow food always triumphs over perennially refrigerated tasteless
supermarket food. I would estimate that 95% of the food we eat here is
grown in South India, where I live, and 80-85% from a radius of 250 km from
Chennai.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> I am still working through a backlog of images from the past couple of
> weeks, not least from our family reunion in France two weeks ago—those are
> priority since the rest of the family are waiting :-) But I am making
> progress and have now reached the last day in Le Mans. I put these three
> images on Facebook and decided to share them here too because I think they
> tell a story about life in Le Mans as it relates to food, ecology, etc., in
> a good way.
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> On the morning of our last day in Le Mans I accompanied my cousin Francis
> and his lovely wife Véronique to the local food market on the square in
> front of the city’s cathedral. It is open six days a week, from about 8
> a.m. until lunchtime. Most of the food is grown in the local area, with the
> obvious exception of bananas and citrus fruits and similar things that do
> not grow  in northern France.
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> I always say that the genius of French cooking is not the fancy stuff, but
> the attention and care lavished on the most basic ingredients. Francis
> examined several vegetable stalls before he decided where to buy the
> lettuce:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/20160717-_DSF1440.jpg.html
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> The deal is about to be concluded:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/20160717-_DSF1442.jpg.html
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> After some more shopping, Francis and Véronique are waiting for the tram
> with their purchases. There is very little parking near the market, so most
> people use the excellent public transport to get there. Also, notice the
> roll-on bag. Plastic bags for groceries are now banned in France, so it is
> essential to bring your own. This is sustainable food shopping in every
> sense of the word:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/20160717-_DSF1448.jpg.html
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> I cannot claim to be this virtuous in my own food shopping here in Spain,
> but I have become a big believer in local produce, and since by law the
> origin of all products must be clearly stated, it is easy for me to do so.
> So when I am buying, say, a red pepper, I can see not only that it was
> grown in Spain but often also in which part of the Spain. Many supermarkets
> have a specific section for produce from our own province of Alicante. And
> I no longer buy fruit and veg that has been shipped from the southern
> hemisphere. If something is not in season here, that’s fine—I can wait.
>
> (Much) more to come!
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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