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Winter arrived so suddenly this year there was no time to shake off the warm-weather mantle of garden tomatoes and...
Butter in France is an amazing thing, and it takes just one visit to any supermarket to recognize its importance in the French diet.
I can still hear her voice—confident, clear and a little plummy. After all, by that time, in 1989, she was...
French forests yield a wealth of mushrooms: chanterelles, girolles, and the dinner-plate-sized parasol mushroom.
Apples may be the queens of Normandy, but there is no better, more seductively regal fruit than a pear.
Our annual year-end salute to the extraordinary artisans of France, whose craftsmanship and passion for their work represent centuries of...
A freshly-picked fig is a wealth of opulent flavor and sensual texture, and a fig and apple tart is a seasonal treasure.
A note from Anne Surcouf recently let me know that she and her husband, chef Hugues Gournay, had opened a new...
Fall, glorious fall. Memories of summer’s corn, eaten in abundance on my visit to the US, are distant as I...
The purist geometry of French sculptor/designer/artisan Stéphane Ducatteau’s limited edition contemporary furniture seems sculpted from rare exotic woods, wenge or...
Le moment des tomates. And never have they been so pulpily good, so marvelously meaty, so filled with juices that...
With some 200 paintings gathered from more than 70 international museums and private collections, the Monet retrospective opening today at...