M EET PASCALE LE DRAOULEC
Pascale is one of the happy faces that always greet me at two of my favorite farmer's markets. In rain, snow, or lettuce wilting heat, she is there in her screaming poppy red lipstick. I recently noticed that she's joined the silver movement! So now she's a hybrid ginger/silver.
Author of ?American Pie: Slices of Life and Pie from America?s Back Roads? (HarperCollins, 2002) in which she chronicles her cross-country road trip in an old Volvo 240 named ?Betty?in search of her American roots and people who still make pie from scratch.
Here she is in a candid moment welcoming the early spring sunshine with an expression of pure acceptance and gratitude.
A first-generation American, Le Draoulec was raised in California, in a decidedly French household obsessed with all things ?food.?
What you can't see are her absolutely dazzling blue eyes. The navy knits, jeans, blue down vest and those signature red lips pull her farmer's market style together. She's also the founder of Morning Glory Markets. She operates markets in 5 communities in Westchester, N.Y. as well as a market inside the gates of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Before running markets, Ms. Le Draoulec was a newspaper reporter for 18 years. She spent most of those years writing about food, and from 2001 to 2007, she was the lead restaurant critic at the New York Daily News where she won a James Beard award for her frank reviews.
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A hard-driving rain always meant foraging for plump snails in the backyard, purging them in a bucket of salt overnight in preparation for escargotsa l?ai et au persil. Ms. Le Draoulec learned to cook (and to make goat cheese and pluck a chicken) while living on a dilapidated dairy farm near Normandy in her 20s. Markets are her happy place.
Writer Ilise Harris is on the streets capturing style and silver beauty through the eye of her lens. She's currently working on a multi generational documentary around aging and embracing gray .
