a Curious Canadian in Provence : photography, art & renovation!
Here are just a few anecdotes from the last month of my life living in France as an expat. I’m currently try to navigate where I come from and where I live now. I love living in France, but sometimes you’ll have to allow me a little rant…
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The last Sunday in November there has been for the past 6 years the Foire Gourmand au Gras. This annual market is not for the faint of heart. It’s here that many locals stock up on Christmas seasonal treats from the South West of France. The ‘fat’ festival includes mountains of foie gras, oysters, truffles, champagne, all manner of high-quality poultry and other regional products.
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Winter leeks have a blue tinge to their leaves. These are being sold right now at Vaison la Romaine market on Tuesday mornings.
For those of you who aren’t kicking yourselves for enthusiastically sowing hundreds of seeds when the first spring blossom appeared (the sprouting weeds somehow not reminding you of the seemingly unmanageable workload that comes with a ‘potager’ of a decent size), you will most likely be thinking of planting your winter veggies. I would suggest planting leeks in Provence.
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Two years ago on the first of April, my day started with attempting to daringly participate (my target was my boss) in the poisson d’avril, or April Fools day in France.
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