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An exciting new take on Live from Rungis

Products to look out for

Fortuna, cauliflower, GOLD kiwi, courgettes, air mango, Jerusalem "˜choke, broccoli, lemons various, radicchio Castelfranco, tiny Galante potato and thin white mooli.

Fruit and Mushroom

This will be the third week we have received red fleshed guava. They are being sent from Vietnam and are completely different from the hard white ones from Brazil, which would explain why so many are re-ordering them. Other things to consider over the next few weeks would include fortuna - a slightly sharp, full flavoured citrus - the sweet Orri clementine, using French pears such as comice, comice blush and the passe crassane. The Southern Hemisphere fruit is nearly upon us and the first green William pears are arriving from South Africa. Lemons are proving more and more popular and so we are now offering the Cadra (Cedro), Eureeka from Provence, Primofiori from Spain, a Bergamote from Morocco and a very tasty one from Amalfi in Italy. Blood oranges are superb - we will be finishing with the Italian Moro any minute and moving to the Spanish Sanguinelli. Soft fruit is good with some lovely large, tasty blueberries from Chile. Spanish strawberries are more flavoursome and almost full red now and who knows, if the mild weather stays, we could have Gariguette by the next Newsletter.

 Vegetable and Salad

It looks like we are approaching the end of the tunnel with some  very exiting products starting to arrive this week. Last week saw the first French white Asparagus from the south east of France, a little small then, but now we are up to the 16/22 calibre. Today saw the first boxes of Calico Artichoke from Spain. They are round in shape and much heavier than the pointed ones that have been on offer. Many French Tomato growers have started sending their first production onto the market. Beef tomatoes are coming up from Provence in the full range of calibers from the very large 18 to quite a small 27 - all excellent for stuffing, etc. Vine tomatoes from different producers and in different colours means we can offer a fruit with a fuller flavour and a better ripeness than the Spanish counterparts. The yellow and orange varieties are great for chutneys and better still they are rarely over-ordered so fresh stock arrives on a daily basis.

Six of the Best

After the huge success of our 2kg cheese boards we thought we would offer some slightly different combinations of cheese. Starting this month we are offering a pick "˜n' mix section where you can select 6 different cheeses of your liking and make basically,