WARES AT A NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET

TAKE THAT UNDER THE 13TH'S AERIAL MÉTRO 

( MARCHÉ VINCENT AURIOL, UNDER LINE 6 IN THE 13TH)

A smaller market that is just as pleasant is 10 minutes away. 

One finds a market within 15 minutes on foot throughout the neighborhood, every morning except Monday.  

One finds...

• Meat, fish, fruits, vegetables

• Everyday articles at a fraction of store prices: housewares, electronic accessories, toothpaste, magic markers, batteries, crayons, brushes, belts...

  

• Flowers

• Cheese

• Herbs

• Clothes

 

• Furniture

• Violins

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Immigrants enrich it with...

• Everyday products at lower prices — here, organic eggs  —  and in the background, imports such as the olive oils, honey, dates and figs:

I buy eggs and North African products from this amiable Moroccan, Mohammed. When I forgot to take the figs I had paid for, he left his stand and ran after me across the street: "Madame Catherine, you forgot this!"

• Home cooking: Moroccan and Lebanese specialties prepared on the spot

• "Where are you from?" "China." (Big smile)

 

• Crafts:

• Beauty products, plastic sandals, boubous.

Amelia Nsulia and husband John, from the Republic of Congo

And cordiality.

Supermarkets are anonymous.

Markets have a soul.   

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