Haute Cuisine II

Living in France has meant completely changing our perceptions of what is normal food to eat. This is most apparent when in comes to fruit. Apples here are rubbish. Oranges are OK, but fairly expensive. Kiwifruit are expensive. Pears are not much better than the apples. So, with all of the traditionally cheap and good (in NZ) fruit off the menu, what does one eat? Well, at the moment it's cherries which, at 2 euro (NZ$4) a kilo, are very good buying. How about rockmelons? There are plenty from Morocco about at the mo, so 1 - 1.50 euro buys one of those. Strawberries? 2.50 euro per kilo (we were offered a whole tray of about 12 punnets for 1 euro (NZ$2) at finishing time at the market the other day. Alas our hands were full and we really didn't know what we were going to do with a tray of strawberries). Peaches are going for between 80c and 2 euro per kilo.

Paris expensive? Not always!