Happy June! We're celebrating the raspberry season with 15% off everything raspberry in our store. The code is... FRAMBOISE.
Our raspberry selection includes includes vinegars and cooking ingredients, jams, cookies, fruit jellies, lollipops, chocolates, beverages, and even a fragrant raspberry and peony shower cream by Le Petit Marseillais.
Enjoy the flavors and the scents. Take good care of yourself.
Marianne Prébet
Founder & Gourmand-in-Chief
Just in: more French favorites
Among the French favorites recently added to our shelves you will find Brets La Craquante and honey & mustard potato chips from Britanny, Esprit Provence assorted aromatic extra virgin olive oils, Comptoir du Cacao Dubai chocolate, scrumptious Maison Colibri madeleines with chocolate shells, Émile Vergeois pure yuzu & apple juice, Le Cachou licorice pastilles, and Dammann flavored black tea in an elegant Eiffel Tower tin.
If there is a French treat you would like to find on our website, please share your craving with us.
Suggestions for your French agenda
There is plenty of exciting French cultural events all around America. Enjoy your picks!
Chicago's Art Institute presents Matisse's Jazz: Rythms in Color. Through June 1.
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Manet & Morisot, through July 5, and France in the Time of Manet and Morisot (a photography exhibition), through August 23.
The Denver Art Museum presents The 19th Century in European and American Art.
In New York, L'Atelier Théâtre presents 7 Minutes, a topical play in French (with English subtitles). Through June 6.
In New York, the MoMA presents the Marcel Duchamp exhibition. Through August 22.
L'Alliance New York presents its new film series, The Films of Sophie Letourneur. Through May 26.
L'Alliance New York celebrates Frederick Wiseman with a new film series, Frederick Wiseman in France. Through July 24.
In Washington, DC the National Gallery of Art presents Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris. Through August 30.
In Washington, DC Marc Chagall's magistral Orphée mosaic in on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art.
Try out our recipe for raspberry financiers
Up your afternoon tea game with these beloved raspberry pastries!
Ingredients (for 16 financiers)
100g butter
60g all purpose wheat flour
150g confectioners sugar
40g ground almonds
40g ground hazelnuts (or you can replace with another 40g ground almonds)
4 egg whites
2 handfuls fresh raspberries
Directions
Preheat your oven to 200ºC (400ºF).
Melt the butter and set aside.
Mix the flour, ground almonds and hazelnuts, and confectioners sugar. Add in the egg whites and mix. Add in the melted butter and mix.
Pour the mixture in small financier (or muffin) molds. Top each financier with a rapsberry.
Reduce the oven temperature to 180ºC (350ºF). Bake about 20 minutes. The financiers should be remove from the oven before their color has darkened too much. Otherwise they won't be moist enough.