Just for you: In The Next CulinaryWoman Newsletter

The link between cooking and gardening

I learned to cook before I fell in love with gardening. Yes, we had a garden - my parents grew tomatoes, and all sorts of flowers, including fragrant shrub roses, lilacs and phlox.

But it wasn’t until I was an adult before I began growing my own things to eat. It seemed like the final step to becoming a real cook.

Yet, I realize not everyone makes the con…