During my childhood summer holidays in France, my family ate outside as much as possible. Lunches in the tree house my grandfather built, and tea on the beach at Etretat. The sensuality of going for a swim was extreme. The Manche was always freezing.
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Contemporary Americans who gather produce at the supermarket in the few hours after work might forget that the harvesting and preparing, of food was once an almost all-consuming activity for our forebears.
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