It is French and Caribbean. The colours are truly impressive. Fruits and vegetables as far as you can see, sold by vendors from French Guyana and Surinam. There is every reason to buy local from a sustainability point of view. But the truth is: it is just too good not to do so!
Best ask what the fruits and vegetables are and how to prepare them. For example the green/orange fruit of a palmtree, the Parepou has to be boilt for 35 minutes and it tasts like a sweet potato! Parepou recipe The lady warned me that the chilies are really hot.The colorful arrangements catch the eye…The pepper and chilies look like candy. Best not to believe that.Cucumbers that look like courgettes, courgette-like vegetables that look like cucumbers, everything is possible.The ‘harvest’ of our first shopping tour, note especially the small bananas and local ‘chestnuts’ that have to be boiled for 20 minutes.The second shopping tour brought for example the red ‘pommes d’amour (recipe), fragrant Cupuaco (recipe), and the sour gooseberries (recipe).
Take it away!
If you don’t feel like cooking, on the Saturday market you can buy French-Guyanese delicacies.
The immensely popular fried codfish…the French-inspired ‘tarte-a-‘l’onion’….and the tasty ‘jamais goûté’ that is only caught on Maroni river.
But how about the weather?
Even on a rainy day (and there are lots, it is the rainy season) everybody takes out the umbrella and goes there. It is fun.
Enjoy your local markets!
Buying local saves an awful lot on fossil fuels (prevention on cooled transport and storage), and we can store it longer. And, it is more fun!
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