Author name: Susan Herrmann Loomis

Maine’s blueberry season is in its last days but that doesn’t discourage the bakers, the jam makers, the sundae eaters […]

Has the food in New York suddenly gotten infinitely more tasty, or is it the combination of rain and shine

Garlic Forever (Foire à l’Ail, Tours) Recently, the gracious city of Tours  closed its narrow cobbled streets to traffic, and

The Loire Valley, with it’s grey-stoned and magnificent chateaux, lives up to expectatations.  I particularly enjoy the Chateau d’Ambroise, in

Wisps of clouds swing across the sky this early July day as tomatoes ripen, nectarines and peaches sweeten, apricots turn

    I made quite a discovery the other day, when I found a bed of star-flowered ramps in my

April 12, 2011 Breakfast in America.   Breakfast in France. Lunch in America. Lunch in France. Dinner in America.  

Just this morning I was speaking with a friend about our current cold wave and he said “It looks like

PULLING THE BEAN Last night I hosted the annual “Pulling the Bean” cocktail party. It was so much more fun