While Evelyn and Esta were here last week, Esta mentioned that she'd love to see a French market. That usually means an outdoor market, but the weather was so variable I thought we might get caught in a rainshower as we walked around. Then it occurred to me that in the town of Romorantin, just a few minutes' drive east of Saint-Aignan, there's a covered market hall where a big food market sets up on Wednesday mornings. So the next day, we headed over there to took around. Here are some of the photos I took of food displays I admired there.
All this is very appetizing!
ReplyDeleteI had to look quickly at the photos or I would be longing to be there to buy!
ReplyDeleteLOVE it,
ReplyDeleteMaybe it had more to do with standing on rocks or sand in the water?
ReplyDeleteHow funny! This comment was meant to appear on another blog - don't know how it got here! You must have thought it very strange. What a laugh!
DeleteHa! I knew there must be an explanation.
DeleteYum!
ReplyDeleteI love going to outdoor French markets, but we've also been to many outstanding indoor markets or food halls. Some have been weekly indoor markets like this one, but some have been indoor food halls open pretty much every day. The most recent one we've been to was in Besancon (pre-pandemic); simply superb.
ReplyDeleteSo much seafood on display! Great idea when precipitation is possible!
ReplyDeleteYes, Bob, I have visited the inside market in Avignon (too long ago to be current! 2001!) but an interesting space with friendly sellers who offered me many samples (I remember the tapenade - yummy!) and the beautiful greenery that was growing on the outside front of the building.
I remember you blogging about visiting Romorantin, a long while ago -- that was the first I had heard of the town. Very cool to learn about this market (although, you may well have mentioned it back then?).
ReplyDeleteI'm curious... has Evelyn's friend, Esta, been a reader of your blog?
I don't know for how long Esta has been reading the blog, but she seems to be reading it now. She just sent an e-mail to some friends, copy to me, recommending they have a look at it.
DeleteSo tempting! All French markets are interesting, even the supermarchés, just to see the different products and how they're arranged.
ReplyDeleteThe photos on the right side are not as wide as the ones on the left side. Any reason for that? Is it because of the photo resizing?
ReplyDeleteJe ne vois pas de différence, mais s'il y en a ce sont les joies et les mystères du logiciel de composition.
DeleteI'd like to test and taste the salmon tartare.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, Romorantin is also the name of a grape that is basically exclusively cultivated in the nearby Cheverny/Cour-Cheverny area. The Cour-Cheverny appellation is only for Romorantin wine. One that is interesting is that the Romorantin grape originally came from Burgundy, but is now only grown in this part of the Loire. I wonder which came first, the town name or the grape name.
ReplyDeleteThe name of the town of Romorantin dates back at least to the 1100s (mentioned in a papal bull) and apparently derives from Rivus Morentini (Rivus has to do with rivers and river banks, but I haven't found anything about the meaning of Morentini. Since the grapes were said to have been imported from Burgundy by king François 1er in the 1500s (some dispute that claim) it's more likely that the grape was named for the town and not vice-versa.
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