Author name: Susan Herrmann Loomis

  Can you smell the caramel? The Butter?  The perfumed apples?  This is a preview of the Tarte Tatin we’ll […]

You’ve still got time to serve fresh tomatoes; at least we do here in Normandy. And if we have tomatoes

Potlucks are becoming part of the social landscape here.  I think it has something to do with fatigue.  As my

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!   That’s what it felt like this morning as the rain pounded

It’s very hard to tell the season.  It IS autumn, officially.  But those strawberries in the photo are the sweetest,

I’m not sure what was the best part of my weekend visit in New York.  Wait. I take that back.

And the air smells like butter.  I wasn’t even in Louviers before I made a beeline for a fresh pain

Three days. Eight people.  Beautiful ingredients, delicious wines (all French!), gorgeous kitchen. That was On Rue Tatin in Asheville.  We

At Farm and Sparrow bakery, about 30 minutes outside Asheville in Candler, North Carolina, owner and baker Dave Bauer inspects