We all thought that winter was going to ignore us this year but, no, it’s here.  Snappy cold, hoarfrost lending lace to everything, from the roses to the windshield. The market in Le Neubourg this morning was a study in chill.  Our first stop is always the same — le Fournil d’Eugenie on rue Dupont [...]

  This Thursday will find us doing what many a Norman does at this unique time of year, when herring run by the thousands in the English channel – sitting down to a meal of this delicate, tender fish. We’ll have our Thanksgiving on another day, but we’ll celebrate nonetheless, for herring to the Norman [...]

During each class in Louviers, we spend one morning at a farmers’ market.  Everyone gets something for our picnic – either to cook or unwrap.  I always have plans for dishes we’ll prepare on our return and I await with delight and pleasure to see what everyone brings with them because it means we’ll invent [...]

Excitement!!!!  After two years of patting, trimming, singing to, and generally fawning over, my fig tree has burst forth.  We – my daughter Fiona really – just harvested the very first ripe fig of our own production. A generous girl, Fiona began to cut the fig in half.  Mind you, the fig was the size [...]