Post by Baz Faz on Jun 6, 2017 10:47:26 GMT 2
The village we are staying in has a claim to world fame but you will never have heard of it. Nidermorschwihr is just a one street place (OK, there are a few short side streets) with a number of wine growers who have retail outlets. Our hotel is the only place to stay. But there is one shop run by Christine Ferber. It is a marvel. They sell everything - pots, newspapers, drinks and food. Lots of food of the highest quality. Food that is exported to luxury hotels throughout the world (the Connaught Hotel in London for example). It is jam but not the sort you would buy in a supermarket. Madame Ferber keeps a sharp eye on quality. For instance she rejects cherries that have been picked without the stalk attached because she says that if the stalk has been pulled out that means the flesh round the little hole begins to oxidise - non, non, non. Such insistence on quality does not come cheap - over 8 euros a jar for the jam. But what other village shops gets an article in the New York Times?
www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/fashion/24iht-rjam24.html
We rejected the hotel breakfast and instead bought three different pastries which we ate in our room. We spread towels over our knees to catch the flaky crumbs that dropped as we bit in to the buttery/almondy/chocolatey deliciousness. Mmm. I guess we'll go back to buy picnic provisions as they have wonderfully tempting products: pâtés (some enclosed in pastry) made on the premises of course, local Munster cheese, just-pulled radishes with the leaves so fresh, maybe a fantastic looking raspberry tart.
www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/fashion/24iht-rjam24.html
We rejected the hotel breakfast and instead bought three different pastries which we ate in our room. We spread towels over our knees to catch the flaky crumbs that dropped as we bit in to the buttery/almondy/chocolatey deliciousness. Mmm. I guess we'll go back to buy picnic provisions as they have wonderfully tempting products: pâtés (some enclosed in pastry) made on the premises of course, local Munster cheese, just-pulled radishes with the leaves so fresh, maybe a fantastic looking raspberry tart.
