The taste of flowers, Sylvie Albrand

Stéphane Bréhier | 5/29/23

It's everywhere, on every table, from Rennes to Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid, via Paris, Toulouse, Montpellier and Saint-Tropez. She's the herb with the strange taste, she's the flower with the bewitching fragrance, she's the XXS plant, she's always the aromatic. Sylvie Albrand is a farmer. At her Quyvie farm, she cultivates flowers, young shoots and aromatic plants to grace the plates of chefs, many of whom are very enthusiastic.

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