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A serene and joyful outpost of France in the Caribbean, graced by brilliant colors and extraordinary light
The tender, chewy macaron has been a mainstay of French pastry since Henri II's queen Catherine de Medici introduced the Florentine delicacy in the mid-16th century.
Nicolas Sarkozy has big plans for transforming Paris into a model city for the 21st century.
Georges Bizet’s beloved opera, Carmen, which premiered at Paris’s Opéra Comique in 1875, has taken to the road this summer...
If chocolate is the food of the gods, as its botanical name, theobroma cacao, indicates, then Paris is today's Mount Olympus.
A brilliant new translation of Zola's fascinating portrait of the market in Les Halles during its heyday.
They're here!!!!! Those fat, white stalks of asparagus that send most French gastronomes into a frenzy arrived just a short couple of weeks ago.
There they are, dressed to kill, their billowy leaves gently bending their crimson red stalks nearly to the ground, as...
It’s fun watching food trends come and go. Though it’s tempting to think of French cuisine as immutable, it is...
Hazelnuts, known in France as noisettes, are hardly an important ingredient in Norman cuisine, though I’ve never understood why. Undisciplined,...
In the pantheon of fermented fruits, the apple is second only to the revered grape.
Choosing a campsite There are between 9,000 and 10,000 registered campsites in France – that is almost half the total...