What is in season in February
17 ingredients with a short season — three months or less — are at their best in February in France. Not only fruit and vegetables: the fish, the mushrooms, the game and the cheeses have a season too.
The thinnest month of the year, and it shows: seventeen things. The black truffle finishes here, and with it the fugu milt and the two cured sea-cucumber roes, konowata and kuchiko. Against that, the first green of the year is already pushing — fuki-no-tō through the snow, wasabi flowers, wild leeks between the vines. Violets, and the desert truffle after rain in the Maghreb.
New this month 7
In season now and not in January.
Desert truffle Fuki-no-tō (butterbur flower bud) Hanawasabi (wasabi flower stems) Mekabu Poutine (Niçoise whitebait) Sweet violet Vineyard wild leek
Last month for 7
In season now and gone in March.
Black truffle Blackcurrant buds Fugu shirako Hoshigaki Konowata Kuchiko (dried sea cucumber ovaries) Seville orange
Everything in season in February
Vegetables 4
Fuki-no-tō (butterbur flower bud) Hanawasabi (wasabi flower stems) Nanohana (rapeseed blossom) Vineyard wild leek
Fruits 3
Forced rhubarb Hoshigaki Seville orange
Herbs 1
Flowers 1
Mushrooms 2
Seaweed 1
Fish & seafood 2
Konowata Poutine (Niçoise whitebait)
Shellfish & molluscs 1
Kuchiko (dried sea cucumber ovaries)
Roe & caviar 1
Sweet pantry 1
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