« One day, one elsewhere » ended with the deconfinement in France. Let’s now give way to  » One day, one discovery  » : a journey towards more light and beautiful places to sunbathe in 2021 ! Open door to local crafts! D-25.

Wake up before dawn, thanks to the jet lag, and take the time to go for a walk in the famous market of Cayenne, before starting the day.

Arriving on the premises as the producers set up their colourful stalls and load them with fruit and vegetables, each one more exotic than the next.

Navigate between the alleys and gorge yourself with colour while searching for maracujas and rambutans.

Appreciate the huge variety of vegetables offered for sale in this season. Remain amazed by the beans kilometres, cayenne peppers and watermelons.

Contemplate the piles of cassava, long cucumbers, pakchoï cabbages, cyther plums and mangoes all at the right point …

Discover the varieties of cucumber tea towels and calahous…

Taste bananas like no other, test the exquisite taste of chadecks. Linger on plantain bananas, sweet potatoes, yams…

To devour with your eyes a crate of cayenne peppers abandoned on a corner of the pavement.

To rave about the size of christophines or chayottes and in front of that of aubergines.

Go to the covered market and fall in ecstasy in front of the spice displays… Inventory the different kinds; Indian wood, cumin, sweet curry, strong curry, cinnamon, bird peppers, cloves, roucou, cayenne pepper, turmeric? Let yourself be carried away in a trail of tropical fragrances and exotic colours.

All the senses awake, lose your head until you want to take them all away to enjoy them with friends… Go and meet the spice merchants we have known over the years, like this saleswoman, located at the entrance of the covered market, who prepares in the blink of an eye (sometimes a little longer than expected) pirogues loaded with spices or this salesman, located at the very end of the hall, who makes a curry to fall down.

Don’t forget to buy some of the very successful « Chile hot cherry » chilli peppers, which hide their game well under the false air of small cherry tomatoes.

Buy one bag, then two, then ten and wonder how it all fits in the suitcase?

Go back into the room and savour with delight the powerful aromas that now emerge from all these little sachets. Enjoy the intoxication to be shared on your return.

Suddenly imagining the pleasures to come, so much so that the room and the suitcase are so fragrant. To start the day in a great mood and to think that there is ten thousand times more happiness in walking through a market than in a supermarket or even worse in an online catalogue.

Par Nathalie

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