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| Panais sold at outdoor marketplace. |
Exactly one month ago I predicted that parsnips or
panais, one of those forgotten winter root vegetables the French classify as a
légume oublié from yesteryear,
would mount in popularity and find its way to supermarket shelves here. See my earlier blogpost:
Parnsips, the Next Big Thing. Despite that it was my own prediction, I was still surprised to notice it for the first time yesterday in a grocery store--and in a hard-discount
supermarché at that. Cultivated on a small scale by local producers,
panais has usually been only available at public markets. That was fast!
But this was only one sighting in one store. As any right-thinking French skeptic would say,
"Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps." The arrival of one swallow doesn't mean it's springtime; one shouldn't draw conclusions hastily from an isolated fact.
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| Hirondelle de fenêtre in the Loire; photo attribution: Fryderyk. |
Vocabulary
legume: vegetable
oublié: forgotten
supermarché: supermarket
hirondelle: swallow
©2011 P.B. Lecron
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