French Cooking: Farmers Market

I am a huge advocate of shopping local. The French live the 'shop local' motto at all times. Everyone shops at their local farmers market and supports their areas local goods.  The best farmers market is on Boulevard Raspail known for their Bio Marche(Organic Market).  We dragged ourselves out of bed early on Sunday morning to head for the market. Luckily we arrived early because the market was very popular by noon and it was hard to get through any of the lines.

The cheese at the farmers market was the best.  The women that worked at the cheese farm were cutting the blocks of cheese and scooping fresh cheese into molds while on location at the farmers market. The women passed out cheese samples and ate some themselves while they worked, but even after a few samples there were so many amazing cheeses available it was hard to pick. We ended up with a goat cheese circle and a chunk of bleu that smelled pungently lovely.

The vegetables at the farmers market were beautiful.  They had an abundance of every type of vegetable available at that time of the year.  We decided to purchase tomatoes, basil, asparagus, mushrooms, shallots, and fresh locally made angel hair pasta.