The outdoor season is on and we have everything you need to turn your next picnic into a delectable pique-nique. Sample our French picnic favorites now!
Our picnic selection features olives and pickles, a broad variety of pâtés and rillettes (made with both meat and seafood) for your sandwiches, olive tapenades and vegetable spreads for your tartines, Lesieur mayonnaise in a super handy tube, the incredibly popular Brets potato chips from Brittany, and more...
Enjoy the picnic season. 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, Maffren fruit and pastry-shaped marzipan, Léonard Parli mini calissons, Comptoir du Cacao Dubai chocolate, scrumptious Maison Colibri madeleines with chocolate shells, and Émile Vergeois pure yuzu & apple juice.
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, 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 Hénaff's recipe for baguette pâté sandwiches
Talk about a pique-nique classic!
Ingredients (serves 6)
2 tins pâté Hénaff
6 quarters baguette
1 jar (400g) roasted red bell peppers
300g tomatoes
salt and pepper
Directions
Wash, stem and thinly slice the tomatoes.
Cut the baguettes in half lengthwise, spread the peppers and tomato slices on one side, season and spread the other half with Pâté Hénaff.
Shape the snack and wrap in a towel.
It’s ready to be packed into your backpack!