Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . alize the kinship between French andAmericans—except in the matter of eating, in whichalas, we are so far behind them. The fish market does not open till late, for Pariswants its fish fresh caught, but there is the meat marketto see, and there are still streets and streets of vegeta-bles, streets filled with people, especially of busy por-ters with full or empty hottes—the large basketsused in carrying vegetables—on their backs; or withthe flat fruit baskets, four feet by two and a half,balanced on their heads, on which they carr
Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . alize the kinship between French andAmericans—except in the matter of eating, in whichalas, we are so far behind them. The fish market does not open till late, for Pariswants its fish fresh caught, but there is the meat marketto see, and there are still streets and streets of vegeta-bles, streets filled with people, especially of busy por-ters with full or empty hottes—the large basketsused in carrying vegetables—on their backs; or withthe flat fruit baskets, four feet by two and a half,balanced on their heads, on which they carry loads ofother baskets filled with strawberries, walking along ascalmly as if they were alone in the world, and as ifthe streets were not slippery with vegetable found it difficult to keep our footing on this green FRENCH SUPREMACY 271 refuse from cabbages and lettuces, carrots and turnips,which had been cut off at one blow by the men whostacked them. But it was all fresh, clean, and sweetsmelling. By six oclock the vegetable mounds had disap-. Paris market porters peared almost entirely, as if melted away by the risingsun, and one understands why photographs of the Parismarket are so scarce. When the sun finally shinesthrough the soft morning haze there is little left tosnap-shot. Three porters in blue blouses with hotteson their backs politely consented to pose, and a prettyParisian girl, brown-eyed and red-cheeked, had gladlystood near her pile of sorrel to be caught in the cam-era, 272 FOOD AND FLAVOR The artichokes do not pose well. Great basketsheaped with these green scaly globes fill one street,but to catch them is next to impossible. First a cartgets stalled in front of a particularly fine group, andwhen that is gone there is a mass of people who mustpass. Every one who notices the photographic at-tempts asks Is it for the Cinema?—the Paris rage ofthe moment—and one good-natured, impertinentParisian asks if photographs are for sale and at whatprice
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