My family will be renting an apartment later this month and I love to cook. What should I plan on buying in Paris to bring home to prepare? Any ideas? My 17 year old son loves chicken. Will there be any places in the 8th that sells the chicken with the potatoes or do I need to load up in another arrondisement and bring it back? Thanks for any ideas.
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There are many small supermarkets in Paris, where you can buy all the food items you need. The quality will be high, and you will not believe the selection of cheese, terrine, and ham.
A warning: when buying loose (unpackaged) vegetables, many French supermarkets want you to weigh the bag on a nearby scale, print a label, and attach it to the bag. Some will weigh the bag at the checkout. Watch what other people are doing.
But do eat out at least some nights - you are in Paris - and try to get your son to eat something other than fried chicken!
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You will find beautiful food in France, not only at supermarkets (which are much better served in the food area than ours in Australia, DOC butter anyone?) but also at street markets. See if you can find when there are food markets in the area you will be staying. They are a revelation and an inspiration. You might get gourmet sausages, really country type sausages, various other birds such as duck, duck portions, bresse chicken, then tiny lamb portions (really is lamb)and so on. Even horse should you wish. There are special horse butchers.
The meat cuts can differ from Australian cuts, more cut along the fascia to give cuts without many seams, which is nice.
At a market you may find that some stalls sell only two or three things, maybe berry fruit or asparagus or lettuce only. It is good to point to what you want or ask for it. Some stall holders do not like you to pick up the produce. Watch what others do first. In winter of course the veggies will be different from these but still delicious. French people often shop daily to get what is best and freshest.
There are more cheeses in France than you would believe. Goats cheeses in many forms are common. On prix fixe menus you will often find a little round goats cheese served as the cheese course. I also found that cheese as a course is served straight after the main course (entree to Americans) with a knife and fork rather than bread or crackers. It really does allow you to taste the different flavours of the cheeses and experience their textures.
I have found it difficult to buy crackers in France. They tend more to use bread of which there is a large variety.
It is a cooks heaven. Enjoy.
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Paris has some of the best rotisserie chicken in the world. Many market streets and street markets offer stalls that sell it straight from the spit and include roasted potatoes. There%26#39;s a stall located along the daily rue de Buci market street in the upper-6eme that have the best fresh rotisserie chicken in Paris...and other stalls, shops and stores (fresh produce, fruit, seafood, bakeries, patisseries, fromagerie, florist, wine shops, a Champion supermarché etc) in the immediate area (2-3 square blocks) to fill a dinner table to overflowing and make its legs groan under the weight of wonderful things to eat and drink.
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Evetil, there are places to buy food everywhere you turn -- to find roasted chicken (poulet roti), just follow your nose -- most butchers will have a huge rotisserie at the front of their store, and you can%26#39;t miss it.
As KDKSail mentioned, any of the street markets will have everything your little heart could ever desire to cook -- but should you be exhausted, keep an eye out for Picard -- a store that carries nothing but frozen food -- but very tasty frozen food that comes out of the microwave!
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My mouth is watering right now. Thanks for all the helpful replies you can receive on this website from friendly people.
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