As I prepared for an early summer grill class last week I pinched myself. Anyone who has written a cookbook knows just what I mean. After months of testing, tweaking,…
Everyone here - everyone being most of the growers I buy from - says we're three weeks behind the normal season. This means that instead of jumping feet-first into the…
As I anticipated last week's class, my heart fell. Here I'd advertised a spring class and we were still in the throes of winter with the season being at least…
We had a halcyon moment last week, given the deluges of the weeks before and the grey skies and intermittent torrential rains of this week (I’m looking out the…
Asparagus is back, asparagus is back!!! The Loire Valley has done its magic, and bunches of white and green, fat, juicy asparagus stalks beckon. I could wait to indulge until Baptiste's…
Asparagus is fleeting, this year more than ever. I'm talking about the Best Asparagus in the Universe, that grown by Baptiste Bourdon a few kilometers from Louviers. Weather has been…