The French call it Lèche-vitrines or licking the glass. We American's call it window shopping. What a beautiful way to express the joys of taking in life, especially the elements of it that surround food.
I feel that we have truly diminished the art of food. With our prepackaged, homogenized, no flavor fair that we eat everyday we have truly lost the greatness that is such a basic part of living. Oh to be French and everyday go to your favorite crèmerie for cheese and butter, or your local boucherie for your meat. What fun it would be to visit a great charcuterie for your sausages and then grab some fresh bread from the boulangerie. Finally you could top it all off by stopping by to grab a pastry at the pâtisserie.
Food the way that we Americans see it is not beautiful. It is not accessable. Great food is only experienced once in awhile when someone decides to splurge and go out to a resturant or search high and low to find a shop that actually sells more than the normal boring sameness that overruns everything.
Sometimes I just wish that I could experience food the way that it is meant to be experienced.
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