My love letter to the Parisian food markets
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
After an eventful visit to the Aligre markets in the 12th arrondissement, I came home to share my love of the French food markets with my wife Lina.
Here's an energetic, honest, and in-the-moment recount of what happened when I went shopping for dinner ingredients.
The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson, his take on the classic Sous le ciel de Paris.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody all over here from the EarfulTal podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Life has been very chaotic lately. |
| 0:06.3 | And I thought, why not just embrace it? |
| 0:09.1 | And record this episode in the midst of chaos at a moment when I'm full of vim and vigor |
| 0:15.2 | after a great visit to the local markets. |
| 0:19.4 | Standing next to me, cooking, crepes, my wife, Lina Orlin G. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, busy days. |
| 0:27.7 | I figured even though there's kids running around, you're making crepes. |
| 0:31.5 | I've just been to the market. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm going to capture the moment. |
| 0:34.2 | I think there's something so... |
| 0:35.1 | I came back just now and I said, that was like a life experience. |
| 0:39.4 | And I kind of want to share it. I always come home from these kind of things. I want to share |
| 0:42.7 | with you. Yeah, you're always full of energy. Because I'm one of those people that gets full of |
| 0:47.4 | energy from. Some people gather energy when they're out and about talking to people and some gather energy |
| 0:52.8 | when they're home alone and it's quiet and you're |
| 0:56.4 | certainly the first i'm the former yeah so let me uh let me tell you about it what just happened i'm |
| 1:00.9 | just going to walk you through you gave me a list because we're having friends over and we're |
| 1:04.3 | going to make a chicken yeah i'm roasting a chicken in the oven i'm making some gravy gravy, potatoes and some beans, is the plan. |
| 1:13.0 | And the deal was right now you make crepes for the two kids who are in the background, |
| 1:18.0 | and I'll go to the marketplace, the Marche de Ligre. So here's what happened at the Marci de Ligre |
| 1:23.2 | on a Sunday at lunchtime in Paris. |
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