Dear foodies,
This Sunday, the fourth before Christmas, will mark the beginning of the liturgical season of Advent, which prepares for the solemnities of the Nativity.
It was appropriate to recall this Christian tradition before evoking the commercial high mass of the calendars which tumble at the end of November on the shelves of supermarkets and the windows of shops.
We can say anything about these "toy boxes": consumerist drift, booby trap for big kids, daily incitement to addiction to sweets... Chocolates replaced drawings and other pious images in the 1950s. pinches?
All of these reservations get along perfectly, and not giving in to the general momentum is a reasonable option.
But does it have to be permanently,
within reason ?
Why deprive the children of this moment of gluttony which can have two virtues: one, make them discover alternatives to the insipid Kinder;
two, introduce them to an exercise in patience that defies the ambient snap of the fingers of “everything, right away”.
A single daily gesture, ritualized, to discover a single surprise… Old-fashioned instruction that passes cream, as the young people say: understanding without making people cringe.
For adults, why not offer this original "window shopping" to a sweet tooth, an oenophile, a "théophile", a "caféophile"...?
We bet he or she will quickly get caught up in the game. Here is a selection of handpicked limited editions.
Absolute priority to beautiful houses, artisans.
And if the idea really puts you off,
Happy reading, and have a nice weekend...
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