• Jesse D'Ambrosi, from Massachusetts, left France to launch a luxury deli in the Cotswolds. • Americans, including celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, are moving to the "Hamptons of England." • But locals, D'Ambrosi said, are the business's most loyal customers.

This essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jesse D'Ambrosi, who runs D'Ambrosi Fine Foods in Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds. It has been edited for length and clarity.

The Hamptons are where New Yorkers go to summer. For Londoners, the Cotswolds is the same, only without the sea.

It's really close to London — just an hour and 20 minutes on the train — so it couldn't be easier to pop into the city for restaurants and culture and the rest of it. But even out here, there are luxury amenities: Pilates classes, esth

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