This week, our tasty fish and seafood favorites are in the limelight. Sample them to your heart's content!
Our fish and seafood selection features two renowned family-owned Breton canneries prominently: Groix & Nature and Les Mouettes d'Arvor. Groix & Nature is based on the Island of Groix in southern Brittany. We carry their soups, rillettes, and signature seaweed tartare. Les Mouettes d'Arvor is based in Concarneau, Finistère (the western tip of Brittany). We carry their sardines, mackerel fillets, and rillettes.
We have also included in our selection the Pérard fish, crab, and lobster soups made in Boulogne sur Mer, France's leading fishing port; Les Délices du Lubéron rouille (the spicy Provençal mayonnaise for fish soups and dishes) and anchovy cream; and even chocolate sardines by Le Chocolatier Sablais and Île de Ré. ;)
Enjoy the flavors. Take good care of yourself.
Marianne Prébet
Founder & Gourmand-in-Chief
Just in: more French favorites
Among the French favorites recently added to our shelves you will find St Michel savory biscuits, André Laurent Cœur de Chou choucroute, Pierrot Gourmand Cocorico gummy candies in the shape of beloved French icons, Nina's Paris loose leaf tea in pretty tins, Maffren fruit and pastry-shaped marzipan, Léonard Parli mini calissons, and scrumptious dark and milk chocolate pétanque balls by Le Chocolatier Sablais.
If there is a French treat you would like to find on our website, please share your craving with us.
Suggestions for your French agenda
There is plenty of exciting French cultural events all around America. Enjoy your picks!
Chicago's Art Institute presents Matisse's Jazz: Rythms in Color. Through June 1.
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Manet & Morisot. Through July 5.
The Denver Art Museum presents The 19th Century in European and American Art.
In Kansas City the Nelson-Atkins Museum presents Monet's Garden and the Secret Language of Flowers. Through April 19.
L'Alliance New York presents its new film series, The Fantastic Realism of Georges Franju. Through April 14.
In Washington, DC the National Gallery of Art presents Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris. Through August 30.
In Washington, DC Marc Chagall's magistral Orphée mosaic in on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art.
Try out Groix & Nature's recipe for sweet potato parmentier with scallop rillettes
Talk about a gourmet Breton appetizer!
Ingredients (serves 2)
400g sweet potatoes
10cl heavy liquid cream
2 jars scallop rillettes Breton style
1 shallot
1 small Roscoff onion
5cl white wine
30g grated Comté cheese
1 clove garlic
butter
thyme
salt and pepper
Cook the peeled sweet potatoes in a large volume of salted water for 15-20 minutes.
Purée with a little butter and liquid cream, season with salt and pepper.
Chop the shallot and onion. Finely chop the clove of garlic.
In a skillet, sauté your butter with the shallot, onion and thyme. Let simmer, then add the white wine.
When the wine is evaporated, add the scallop rillettes off the heat and mix together.
In a gratin dish or in ramekins, arrange the scallop rillettes at the bottom, cover with sweet potato purée, and top with the grated Comté cheese.
Bake at 180°C (350°F).
Serve with a green salad.