Butter worship.

More on food today. I walked home from work last night through the Thursday night marche on rue Montorgueil and was completely inspired to start cooking. When I got home, I made myself a big pot of homemade tomato sauce, most of which I'll freeze for nights when I'm too lazy to cook. Anyway, I've always been a big fan of the food in France, and the quality of the ingredients you can find. Today I picked up rhubarb yogurt (whether this sounds good to you depends on whether you're a rhubarb fan, I guess. I am!), inexpensive but delish camembert and butter with crystals of sea salt.

This butter is amazing. Is it bad if I start eating buttered crackers for dessert? It's this really rich, smooth, creamy butter, studded with big crystals of sea salt. The flavor is amazing. I've always been a fan of French President butter, but this brings butter to a whole new level. Creamy goodness and then a Pop! of salt.

One of my favorite food & Paris bloggers, David Lebovitz, wrote this post about butter in France.

Now that I'm feeling slightly more confident about grocery shopping in Paris, I'm looking forward to trying all of the foods available. The tisanes (herbal teas) in the tea aisle are overwhelming. Tonight I saw a tisane specially formulated for people with jambes lourdes or "heavy legs" (I have never heard of this phenomenon in the USA, but in France they have teas, creams and all sorts of things to cure heavy legs. Hrmmmm.). I love the concept that a food can also be a beauty product. More grocery store discoveries to come!