What to eat?

One of the things that you learn as an expat is that you end up missing certain foods from the last country you lived in.  I have learned to live without certain of my Canadian favourites, but I must say, it didn't ever really occur to me that I would miss any of the foods from England (other than a big plate of bangers and mash, the UK's best invention ever).  And yet, I would sell my grandmother (if I had one, which, fortunately for her, I don't) down the river for a jar of Marmite right this minute.  Sigh.  And it's not always that you can't buy the thing you want, it's just a question of how insanely expensive it is here if and when you find it.  So I am busy making up my list of goodies to pick up on my next trip back to London...

Anyway, my point is that there is a great store here in Paris called La Grande Epicerie, which I highly recommend the next time it's a rainy day and you have nothing to do, because if you are interested in food, I promise you can spend hours here.  It has a huge but rather random selection; it's also very expensive, but the food is beautiful and it's a fabulous place to go and look around, even if you can't afford to buy anything.  And their international food selection is interesting in the extreme.  I was born and raised in North America and yet I don't believe I've ever seen some of the allegedly North American products which are in that section.  Also, some of their juxtapositions have to be seen to be believed:  Spanish/TexMex is on the same shelf as Germany and even more weirdly, Poland is on the same shelf as the Far East.  Huh???