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MarketBasket: Little French gems

Named "the best lentils in the world," by cookbook author Patricia Wells, these green lentils from Le Puy en Velay, France, are so much tastier than the grocery store variety. If you have been trying to work a lentil soup or salad into your regular rotation, these lentils will convince you. Not only are they delicious, the dark green lentils with blue marbling are also quite beautiful.

Named "the best lentils in the world," by cookbook author Patricia Wells, these green lentils from Le Puy en Velay, France, are so much tastier than the grocery store variety. If you have been trying to work a lentil soup or salad into your regular rotation, these lentils will convince you. Not only are they delicious, the dark green lentils with blue marbling are also quite beautiful.

- Maureen Fitzgerald
Green Lentils from Le Puy A.O.P., $10.95 for a 17.6-ounce package at In the Kitchen Cooking School, 10 Mechanic St., Haddonfield. 856-489-1682.

French appeal

Glass keeps milk colder and makes it taste fresher. These glass containers comes in small (15 ounce) and large (30 ounce) sizes with lettering in red or blue. The porcelain lid is airtight, and the French lettering evokes a time when milk was delivered in glass.

- Dianna Marder
Glass milk bottles with porcelain lids, $16.95 small or $18.95 large, at farmhousewares.com. 866-567-7958.