The traditional market in Cavaillon has both a food and a huge industrial part - there is a huge sector with clothes and shoes, where products from Chinese craftsmen are very noticeable.
In the grocery section, pay special attention to the melon - this is an undoubted attraction of the city! It is so fragrant and tasty that the great Alexandre Dumas promised to bequeath to the city library a complete collection of collected works, if the city agrees to provide him with a life annuity of 12 melons a year. Thus, Cavaillon was enriched by numerous volumes of the author of The Three Musketeers.
So what is this miracle? This is a melon with a rough yellow skin - a descendant of the Cantalou variety, after the name of the town of Cantalupo near Rome. Today it is grown mainly around Cavaillon, which gives it the right to be called "Cavaion".
How to choose?
Let's turn to the Provence guru - Peter Meil, a quote from "Provence from A to Z": “...a melon is chosen by examining it, lifting it, patting it, sniffing it. Each melon has a small pip from a fallen flower on one side, and a tail from the stem on the other. This very tail should be the same color as the melon.
Next, the peel is examined. For our convenience, nature has divided Cavaillon melons into slices delimited by blue-green lines. A good melon should consist of ten slices, no more and no less. Lift it, feel the pleasant heaviness. Drum on it with your fingertips - it will respond with a dull hum, indicating the presence of a cavity. Finally, bring it up to your nose, inhale its clean, sweet scent (near the ponytail, by no means near the pip). When the melon has passed all these tests, it is ready for use ..."
The magic list of the distribution of markets by Provence cities and days of the week looks like this:
Monday: Bedoin, Fontvieille, Goult, St.
Didier, Bollene, Cadenet, Cavaillon, Mazan, St. Saturnin les Avignon
Tuesday: Vaison la Romaine, Gordes, Caromb, Beaumes de Venise, Fontaine de Vaucluse, Aix en Provence
Wednesday: St. Remy de Provence, Malaucene, Sault, Buis les Baronnies, Le Thor, Monteux, Villes sur Auzon
Thursday: Roussillon, Les Baux de Provence, Orange, Velleron, Robion, Vacqueyras, Ansouis
Friday: Carpentras, Chateauneuf du Pape, Bonnieux, Corthezon, Lourmarin, Pertuis, Eygalieres, Morieres, Cairanne
Saturday: Apt, Avignon, Grillon, Mornas, Oppede, Pernes les Fontaines, St. Cecile les Vignes, Le Thor, Monteux, Jonquieres
Sunday: l'Isle sur la Sorgue, Jonquieres, Mormoiron, Sarrians, Avignon
In the grocery section, pay special attention to the melon - this is an undoubted attraction of the city! It is so fragrant and tasty that the great Alexandre Dumas promised to bequeath to the city library a complete collection of collected works, if the city agrees to provide him with a life annuity of 12 melons a year. Thus, Cavaillon was enriched by numerous volumes of the author of The Three Musketeers.
So what is this miracle? This is a melon with a rough yellow skin - a descendant of the Cantalou variety, after the name of the town of Cantalupo near Rome. Today it is grown mainly around Cavaillon, which gives it the right to be called "Cavaion".
How to choose?
Let's turn to the Provence guru - Peter Meil, a quote from "Provence from A to Z": “...a melon is chosen by examining it, lifting it, patting it, sniffing it. Each melon has a small pip from a fallen flower on one side, and a tail from the stem on the other. This very tail should be the same color as the melon.
Next, the peel is examined. For our convenience, nature has divided Cavaillon melons into slices delimited by blue-green lines. A good melon should consist of ten slices, no more and no less. Lift it, feel the pleasant heaviness. Drum on it with your fingertips - it will respond with a dull hum, indicating the presence of a cavity. Finally, bring it up to your nose, inhale its clean, sweet scent (near the ponytail, by no means near the pip). When the melon has passed all these tests, it is ready for use ..."
The magic list of the distribution of markets by Provence cities and days of the week looks like this:
Monday: Bedoin, Fontvieille, Goult, St.
Didier, Bollene, Cadenet, Cavaillon, Mazan, St. Saturnin les Avignon
Tuesday: Vaison la Romaine, Gordes, Caromb, Beaumes de Venise, Fontaine de Vaucluse, Aix en Provence
Wednesday: St. Remy de Provence, Malaucene, Sault, Buis les Baronnies, Le Thor, Monteux, Villes sur Auzon
Thursday: Roussillon, Les Baux de Provence, Orange, Velleron, Robion, Vacqueyras, Ansouis
Friday: Carpentras, Chateauneuf du Pape, Bonnieux, Corthezon, Lourmarin, Pertuis, Eygalieres, Morieres, Cairanne
Saturday: Apt, Avignon, Grillon, Mornas, Oppede, Pernes les Fontaines, St. Cecile les Vignes, Le Thor, Monteux, Jonquieres
Sunday: l'Isle sur la Sorgue, Jonquieres, Mormoiron, Sarrians, Avignon
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