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# One plate, five seasons
- URL: https://aurelia.samadesign.dev/one-plate-five-seasons/
- Published: 2026-08-23T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-23T13:00:00.000Z
- Description: A chef cooks the same dish all year long, and lets the seasons rewrite it.
- Author: Camille Laurent
- Tags: Table, #Import 2026-10-07 01:52

On her menu there is one dish that never leaves: a simple plate of vegetables, grains and a sauce. What changes is everything inside it.

In spring it is peas and mint. In summer, tomatoes and basil. In autumn, mushrooms and hazelnuts. She counts five seasons, not four: the fifth is the short weeks between summer and autumn, when everything is ripe at once.

"The plate is a frame," she says. "The season is the painting."