Flower Petal Shortbread Cookie Recipe

Summer's heat has mellowed, but the gardens are still verdant. Bees are still buzzing in the last of the rose vine curved over my kitchen window. Jean-Jacques, my neighbor, noisily harvests tomatoes in his pail as his cane whacks it with each step. "Mince, alors," he shouts. Tomatoes tumble from his pail, rolling through his garden.