Salut les amis! Oh dear, oh dear, another crowded week. I spent all day yesterday at Taste of London and am going back today and this weekend (look out for me if you go, I wear a white apron with a large strawberry tart on it). This event is so much fun! Yesterday I saw Tom Parker Bowles and I was introduced to Charles Campion (the multi-award winning book author and food writer at the Evening Standard), who kindly let me know he had better things to do than talking to uninteresting me. Fair enough, he was one of the judges in charge of voting for the best dish of Taste of London, going through a gruesome tasting of 25 dishes in a row. You know me though, I am not the one to give up. I kept following him and his entourage, smiling engagingly and waving a paper copy of my newsletter every time his eyes were crossing mine. I might have been rolling my eyes too – I kind of lose it when I am star struck – plus I was totally sun burnt from having spent the afternoon under the sun. You guessed right, my seduction power was, mildly put, rock bottom. Slightly scared by his odd and tomato red stalker (yours truly), he was graceful enough not to call security. Instead, dearest Charles sighed and ended up giving me his personal email address before I could implement my plan of kidnapping him behind the wine tasting tent. Mission achieved! Not the most brilliant start for a blossoming relationship, I concede, but still, I will keep you updated with the state of my communications with sweet Charlie and whether TD makes it to the Evening Standard. Now enjoy another great issue of TD, which stars courgette in two luscious, quick and simple recipes, and gives you great ideas for cooking up a storm on Father’s day for the man of the house. Lastly, check out the Kitchen talk giving you tips on turning old bananas into a fabulous and quick treat and preventing the bottom of your tarts from getting soggy. Happy Father’s Day, happy start of Summer, and see you next week! Anne-Laure x