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Two things I always bring home from europe are butter and jam (cheese too, but that's a whole other story).  If I am lucky, I will pick up Bordier's butter in Paris.  This butter comes from Brittany where I spent a couple summers - one of my favorite destinations for good food in France.  iI I am even luckier, I get Caroline's homemade jam in London. Her jam also comes from her fruit trees in Brittany.  This Time, I got double lucky.  I got both.  Bordier makes a variety of butters.  His Bordier's smoked butter is particularly tasty.  I hardly use butter in my cooking but when I have butter like this, I do.  I spread it rather generously on my toast and think about my grandmother who did the same.

  

Spreading butter and jam with my grandmother's butter knife.