Back to early spring wonderment. Contribution of the elderly to nature’s revival warmed my heart in April.
Back to early spring wonderment. Contribution of the elderly to nature’s revival warmed my heart in April.
Simple moments. We felt it: happiness was in the garden yesterday.
I enjoyed an unexpected treat at Dragon House, Corinna and Yves’ guesthouse in Gloucestershire, West England.
The medlar is a forgotten fruit that attracted a lot of interest from the Londoners I met. Here is the story of my London medlars experience and of what happened afterwards.
A conversation at the local market, a professional relationship which turned into friendship and the will to use rather than waste made the story of this jam.
What does wildlife in a one hundred year old man-made pond has to do with local fruit?
Granary Square is part of King’s Cross, the largest urban redevelopment in Central London at the moment. Pears, cherries, tomatoes and other edibles are growing there, for the pleasure of the eyes, just a few yards away from Central Saint Martins’ creative powerhouse.
Back to London fruit for a while, in order to broaden our record of the varieties of plums that grow there and provide a recipe I haven’t tested myself.
We walked in the wild garden of the Auvergne a day after the opening of the “Grand Site du Puy Mary” road, now free from snow.