After months of bite-sized berries, wee apricots all ablush, and innocent heads of leafy greens, fall produce can come as quite a shock here.Suddenly market stands are weighed down with giant slices of pumpkin (they're too big to be sold whole), fat apples and pears in all shapes and colors, and piles of twisted black radishes.
Shoppers hobble home laden with their spoils, conspicuous stalks of leeks and chard peeking out from bags and baskets, not knowing the culinary coup that awaits them. . . For tonight, Madame will cover them in egg and cream and put them in a pie!
Illustration by Beatrix Potter [Online image] 1893.
