I took my family to a cooking class en plein air at a famed estate outside Paris.

Here’s what we made.

When I returned with the oregano, I found Zanoni helping Odella make focaccia.

A large marble colored building in Versailles; vegetables growing in a garden

Domaine de Madame Élisabeth, in Versailles, France; lettuce ready for harvesting at the estate.

He bowed to her insistence on adding more rosemary and thyme.

We also set the wooden picnic table with hand-painted Italian plates and azure glass goblets.

Luxury is not a fancy chandelier or stiff service, he said.

A young girl plays in a garden; hands tending to vegetables in a garden

The author’s daughter, Odella, in the garden.Elise Quiniou/Courtesy of Four Seasons

It should feel like an extension of your house.

After such an extravagant meal, there was only one thing left for us to do: the dishes.

People in a kitchen preparing vegetables together

The author and family preparing a meal with chef Simone Zanoni.Elise Quiniou/Courtesy of Four Seasons

A person holds a tote bag full of vegetables in a garden

Vegetables grown at Four Seasons Hotel George V’s Versaille garden.Courtesy of Four Seasons