By Rick Nelson
From Star Tribune
Author Frank Adrian Barron was missing home when he moved abroad, so he took to seasonal baking.
Frank Adrian Barron and his now-husband, James, moved to Paris 10 years ago.
It was January, and when Barron, a transplanted Californian, hit the produce section at a nearby supermarket in search of smoothie ingredients, he was confronted by a distressing reality: no strawberries.
“The French, I’d quickly find out, preferred to eat by the season, buying fruits and vegetables right when they’re harvested, when their flavor is at their natural peak,” he writes in “Sweet Paris: Seasonal Recipes From an American Baker in France” (Harper Design, $29.99). “Though I was aware of this practice in theory, it wasn’t how we ate where I was from, a land where everything is available at any time.”…