. . . while evenings in the city may be spent in heels and cocktail dresses, weekends away in the country are laid-back in a quilted Barbour and a pair of wellies, and after the apple orchards and pumpkin patches, the golden fields of wheat and rustling yellow leaves, a perfect afternoon for an autumn picnic for two . . .
YOU MAY HAVE CAUGHT GLIMPSES of writer Amanda Brooks' idyllic farmhouse on Instagram. Brooks and her husband, painter Christopher Brooks, left New York City in 2012 with their two children, Coco and Zach, for what was meant to be a year-long retreat at his family’s 1820s farm in Oxfordshire, England, and haven't left since . . .
ONE OF THE BEST things about the changing of the seasons is all the different fruits and vegetables that signal each one. Summers in Spain meant sandía in the mornings and springtime means lots of sweet, dark cherries. Right now, in early autumn, it's apples, hanging heavy from all the trees scattered about the countryside, and my most favourite of all, fig season ...