Brand 'Ethiquable' - Commerce Equitable

[bleudauvergne]

We have a little 'Ethiquable' boutique that just opened up in our neighborhood. So far I have tried the dessert chocolate, all of the juices, the vanilla beans, and so far 5 of the different coffees that they sell by weight. This one also has filled chocolates of which I have fallen in love with the raspberry ganache filled dark.

Keeping my eye out for prices around town, I find that their products are very easy on the pocketbook. They actually cost less than big name brands of the same product.

The vanilla beans sold by the ampoule of three whole beans at my particular boutique go much more cheaply that I've found anywhere else in town and they are the best I've found here in France, fresh, plump, and full of flavor.

The Coffees are wonderful, from Africa and South America, all direct equitable commerce, and I am going through and buying each kind. They're all so good I'm going to have a hard time choosing once I've tried them all, I think. This week we're trying Guatemala.

The dessert chocolate 60% (for baking and desserts) is made from pure cocoa butter and trinitario cocoa (no wax, no synthetic fats or other stuff) and has a beautiful taste, much better than the mainstream dessert chocolates you can get from the market shelf. Honestly it is simply the best dessert chocolate I have found for baking. It is so good I have been tempted on several occasions to just eat it plain.

I asked the girl how they manage to keep the prices so low and she explained that through a grant program sponsored by the city, they don't pay rent or taxes on the boutique space, which is owned by the city, and this savings is passed to the consumer.

The 'Ethiquable' brand products are sold in mainstream shops as well. My recommendation is to check these boutiques out because all of the products I have tried so far are of excellent quality and a great buy.

Anyone else seen the 'Ethiquable' shops and tried the goods?

[John Talbott]

Anyone else seen the 'Ethiquable' shops and tried the goods?

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See if you can get a brochure with their locations. Their website is neat but uninformative as to "where to get/buy."

[Margaret Pilgrim]

The vanilla beans sold by the ampoule of three whole beans at my particular boutique go much more cheaply that I've found anywhere else in town and they are the best I've found here in France, fresh, plump, and full of flavor. 

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Lucy, I don't think that I am out of line asking precisely what do you pay for a bean from them? For a number of years, before they 'disappeared', I bought excellent vanilla beans by the dozen from the islanders at the Paris Fermier Show, where the price was something under a euro a bean. Pas mal, non? Since they have not set up at recent shows, I would love another good source.

[Ptipois]

See if you can get a brochure with their locations.  Their website is neat but uninformative as to "where to get/buy."

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Click the "liens" link. It will take you to their Epicerie équitable and online sale of their products.

[bleudauvergne]

It looks like they may not control final retail prices. I see that at the online boutique the vanilla beans are €5.00 but at the boutique on my street the package of 3 beans goes for €4.50.

[John Talbott]

See if you can get a brochure with their locations.  Their website is neat but uninformative as to "where to get/buy."

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Click the "liens" link. It will take you to their Epicerie équitable and online sale of their products.

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I was looking for where I could actually enter a store and see the stuff and buy it in reality not virtuality.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Anyone else seen the 'Ethiquable' shops and tried the goods?

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See if you can get a brochure with their locations. Their website is neat but uninformative as to "where to get/buy."

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I have scoured the site and can't see that they have any retail outlet outside of yours in Lyon. Lucky you! How I wish they would come to Paris!

[bleudauvergne]

Apparently some of these products are in mainstream supermarkets. I will ask.