Phishing
Instagram’s most notorious fish dealer is a fisherwoman who cuts out the middleman, selling her catch directly to professional kitchens! She’s got everything from abalone and telline clams to whelks, sea urchins and lobsters… Briny baskets that you can nab in Paris, and best of all, you don’t even need to be a professional chef to get one!
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Acid trip
Three days. That’s how long it takes for Marion Laperche to prepare her jams, each of which is made with citrus that gets harvested fresh, washed, zested, peeled, chopped and deseeded, before being simmered in an old-fashioned copper pot. These tangy gems then get shipped out across France and the Navarre region of Spain.
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Wheat removal
At her mill in Provence, chef Nadia Sammut (La Fenière) makes locally-grown alternative flours, without gluten getting into the mix. She works exclusively with chestnuts from the Ardèche, buckwheat from Gascony, chickpeas from the Vaucluse and rice from the Camargue. Quality goods that she ships out across France, along with organic breads, vegetable cakes, orange blossom cookies, and crunchy breadsticks.
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Love and spices
Garlic from Nepal, lemongrass from Zanzibar, barberry from Iran, saffron from Kashmir… Take a world tour via the spices sourced with love by Roï Hendel and Cyril Muller, the founders of Shira. And to go with all that, there’s a handful of other products to set your food on fire, like rose harissa.
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The financiers market
Nina Métayer doesn’t need to a brick and mortar shop to keep all those with a sweet tooth happy: in two clicks, anyone in Paris and the greater Paris area can get their fill of brownies, marble cake, cookies and madeleines. That’s the kind of market we want to invest in!
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