What is in season in January
26 ingredients with a short season — three months or less — are at their best in January in France. Not only fruit and vegetables: the fish, the mushrooms, the game and the cheeses have a season too.
January is the month the feast leaves the table. The goose, the poularde, the boudin blanc and the cotechino are all in their last weeks, and so are the clementines, the yuzu and the Buddha's hand. What arrives instead is small and sharp: bitter oranges for marmalade, rapeseed flowers, forced rhubarb grown in the dark. Cook the chicories while you can — the Rosa di Gorizia is at its best now and gone by February.
New this month 4
In season now and not in December.
Forced rhubarb Leatherwood honey Nanohana (rapeseed blossom) Seville orange
Last month for 16
In season now and gone in February.
Agrumato lemon oil Boudin blanc Buddha's hand Cardoon Clementine Cotechino Goose Goose foie gras Kazunoko Kuwai Manuka honey Oca Poularde Rosa di Gorizia Tuna belly (toro) Yuzu
Everything in season in January
Vegetables 5
Cardoon Kuwai Nanohana (rapeseed blossom) Oca Rosa di Gorizia
Fruits 6
Buddha's hand Clementine Forced rhubarb Hoshigaki Seville orange Yuzu
Herbs 1
Mushrooms 1
Meat & poultry 5
Boudin blanc Cotechino Goose Goose foie gras Poularde
Fish & seafood 2
Shellfish & molluscs 1
Kuchiko (dried sea cucumber ovaries)
Roe & caviar 2
Fats & oils 1
Sweet pantry 2
Leatherwood honey Manuka honey
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