The Perfect Egg

We get our eggs for our classes at The Cook’s Atelier from Fred Estèves, the best egg producer at the Beaune Saturday market, where we usually buy six 30-egg flats each week we have classes. But for our own use, we have six chickens that have become one of the highlights of our life at the Woodland House. We let them out of their coop each afternoon the way most people take their dogs for walks; it’s a ritualistic and settling part of our day that we’ve started referring to as our daily “ch