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The homemade versions, especially of nut milks, are spectacular. Properly made, they are superior to store-bought on every metric, including flavor, texture, all around milkiness, even cost. And they don’t take long to prepare.

Whipped egg whites, creamy yolks and a spinach nest make this meal unique.

Garlic with pea shoots is a combination worth exploring. It’s hardly a secret, especially in Asia where pea greens are widely consumed. In many regions, peas are sown throughout the summer specifically for their greens, every week or so like American farmers plant lettuce.

Nice, France’s fifth-largest city, has a storied past. Suffice to say its food, architecture and culture have been influenced by Greeks, Italians and Spaniards before ending up in the hands of the Emperor Napoleon III of France in 1860. Nice makes a worthy base for exploring the Cote d’Azur, with its combination of clean air from nearby mountains and sea spray from the Mediterranean coast.