carrotte

Some French carottes are famous: Normandy’s carottes de Créances, which are grown in sand, and red carrottes de Meaux from the Hauts-de-France, which star in the country’s most famous carrot soup, potage Crécy.

In some of the fancier vegetable stands you can also get purple, white and yellow carrots: common carrot colours before patriotic Dutch gardeners started favouring the orange ones (which are very pretty, one must admit).

Useful expression

If someone says les carottes sont cuites ‘the carrots are cooked’ don’t expect them to be serve at the table... it means it’s too late to do anything about it.