In my first and last childhood picnic memory, I'm running through the forest, fleeing from the big raindrops of a summer storm. Once I reach the car I'm soaked. We never venture out again, mainly because of my father's resistance, who can't see the point...

I went to the farmers' market this morning and saw fresh broad beans for the first time this year. When I came home I wondered what to do with them, so I asked the British gardener and cook Sarah Raven for advice by looking broad beans up in her "Garden...

I studied in the south of Germany, in the beautiful and very green city of Freiburg near the French and Swiss borders. If you ever get run over in Freiburg it will be by a bike or a tramway. The people there are very outdoorsy and even in the winter you...