{"id":18118,"date":"2020-07-21T21:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colleensparis.com\/?p=18118"},"modified":"2021-01-12T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T15:37:57","slug":"artisanal-shop-brings-new-flavours-to-the-bastille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/2020\/07\/artisanal-shop-brings-new-flavours-to-the-bastille\/","title":{"rendered":"Artisanal Shop Brings New Flavours to the Bastille"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my way to the oriental pastry shop Diamande<\/a>\u00a0along the Rue Sedaine in the Bastille, I noticed a new just-opened \u00e9picerie. I was tempted to stop for a glass of wine on its terrace (i.e., the sidewalk). <\/span><\/p>\n

When I walked into the shop, the man behind the counter looked familiar even behind his mask: the eyes, the Tintin-spiked haircut. \u201cYou resemble someone\u201d, I said. \u201cWho\u201d? he asked. I proceeded to say the television personality who visits French producers and chefs riding up on his red and white checkered tricycle. Bingo! Voil\u00e0! Lo\u00efc Ballet and his childhood friend, Elodie Charras have opened\u00a0an artisanal <\/span>shop selling products (condiments, wine, cheese, charcuterie, oils, etc.) of producers around France some of whom<\/span> he has interviewed in his radio and television segments. His weekly television segment is \u201cLe Triporteur<\/a>\u201d on T\u00e9l\u00e9matin.<\/p>\n

The story behind the logo<\/h3>\n

The logo for the \u00e9picerie is an arm holding up a leek. Yes, it resembles the socialist fist with a hammer. But Lo\u00efc thought a vegetable might be calmer. The saucisson\/sausage was one idea but it did not work well in black and white. He decided on the versatile leek widely used by the French in numerous recipes and immediately identifiable whether in black and white or color. \u00a0The background is a cocoarde, the national ornament of the French Republic.<\/p>\n

Lo\u00efc Balle<\/a>t is a big defender of local and French producers, whose products are becoming abundant in my Bastille neighborhood. Open for five days when I visited, Benjamin Piccoli from Ch\u00e2teau Caze<\/a>\u00a0offered a d\u00e9gustation\/tasting of four wines from the Fronton area vineyards around Toulouse. The white wine, Larmes de Vigne (Cabernet Franc, N\u00e9grette and Syrah) went perfectly with a great blend: nougat and bleu cheese. This combination is a melt-in your mouth, light, barely sweet Silvain Brothers nougat and Roquefort de Gabriel. Sometimes it is difficult to find ros\u00e9, but the Fronton ros\u00e9 (N\u00e9grette and Syrah) comes with some character, which worked with salami varieties de Marion and Comt\u00e9 des Rousses cheese from the Jura region. Convinced about the quality, we left the shop with two bags full of groceries! Definitely worth a visit to this new addition on Rue Sedaine (as well as Diamande by the way!). Pour eux qui veulent lire plus sur Lo\u00efc Ballet et ses histoires<\/a><\/em> (Follow the link for those who wish to read more about Lo\u00efc stories).<\/p>\n

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Colleen of Colleen's Paris enjoying the wine moment with Benjamin Piccolo (left) and Triporteur (Telematin) personality, Lo\u00efc Ballet (center)<\/div><\/a>\"Image<\/a>\"\"
Interior of l'Epicerie de Lo\u00efc B<\/div><\/a>\"\"
Silvain Brothers nougat and Roquefort de Gabriel<\/div><\/a>\"image
Salami varieties de Marion and Comt\u00e9 des Rousses from the Jura<\/div><\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"image<\/a>\"image
4 Rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris http:\/\/www.diamande.fr<\/div><\/a>\"image
Fine,creative almond pastries at Diamande<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my way to the oriental pastry shop Diamande\u00a0along the Rue Sedaine in the Bastille, I noticed a new just-opened \u00e9picerie. I was tempted to stop for a glass of wine on its terrace (i.e., the sidewalk). When I walked into the shop, the man behind the counter looked familiar even behind his mask: the eyes, the Tintin-spiked haircut. \u201cYou resemble someone\u201d, I said. \u201cWho\u201d? he asked. I proceeded to say the television personality who visits French producers and chefs riding up on his red and white checkered tricycle. Bingo! Voil\u00e0! Lo\u00efc Ballet and his childhood friend, Elodie Charras have opened\u00a0an artisanal shop selling products (condiments, wine, cheese, charcuterie, oils, etc.) of producers around France some of whom he has interviewed in his radio and television segments. His weekly television segment is \u201cLe Triporteur\u201d on T\u00e9l\u00e9matin. (To read more click on the title Artisanal Shop Brings New Flavours to the Bastille)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1114,712],"tags":[59,1235,1234,1236,13,1237,1040],"class_list":["post-18118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lets-explore","category-specialty-shops","tag-bastille","tag-epicerie","tag-grocery","tag-local-producers","tag-paris","tag-rue-sedaine","tag-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EpicerieLoicBallet_Sedaine_9376.jpeg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18118"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18131,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions\/18131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}