Meandering through the Maille Mustard Boutique in Madeleine Place Paris, I began to realize more and more the love affair the french have with mustard. Unlike North America where mustard is used as a lowly condiment, in France mustard is held with very high esteem and an essential ingredient in the kitchen of every french cook.
If there is any one place to fall in love with the beloved ingredient of mustard it would be at their boutique at 6 Madeleine in Paris. Never in my life have I see to the degree of variety and quantity or quality of mustard in any one place. It became apparent that Mailles is so much more than about mustard, it is about making mustard your MISTRESS.
Seeing mustard on tap completely blew my imagination. For those who took their gastronomy seriously, fresh mustard on tap was available that you could carry away in a ceramic holder. On the day that I happened to go the gastronomic gods must have smiled on me because they told me they had rare limited edition Chablis and black truffle mustard on tap only available between Oct to March. And in that moment i knew what my Parisien splurge was going to be......
