Farro Salad with Tomatoes, Mushrooms and Basil

In August, most of the businesses in Paris shut down while a vast number of people take their annual holiday vacations. And in case you think that's a grammatical error, in French one says les vacances, in the plural. So if you have a problem with that, I would tell you to take it up with them yourself, but right now most of them are unavailable at the moment.

It sounds odd, but I know several business in America that follow the same model of shutting down for a few weeks so everyone can go ...