The Cook and the Gardener - Recipes and Writings from France

The ancient link between the gardener and the cook is at the heart of this remarkably evocative cookbook, in which Amanda Hesser tells the story of a year she spent as a cook in a seventeenth-century château in Burgundy. The propertys old gardener was wary of her at first, but over time they became friends, and he showed her a way of life that was quickly disappearing from France.eau-de-vieThe Cook and the Gardener