Food, feuds and baguette stamps

A favourite French cookbook, scratch-and-sniff baguette stamps, and a recipe for the green beans you’ll be cooking all summer long, plus this week’s market haul.

Richard Olney’s book, Simple French Food. I love this Cézanne painting, Vessel, Basket and Fruit, on the front. It’s my whole life.

“A dreary old cliche has it that ‘one should eat to live and not live to eat.’ It is typical that this imbecile concept, a deliberately fruitless paradox born of the puritan mind, should deny sensuous reaction at either pole…