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Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Chef Marc Veyrat is planning to open another high-altitude restaurant, in the tiny hamlet of Manigold, in the French Alps.
02.22.07
travel + culture

Gute Reisen, Gute Speisen

Who'd have believed the Germans would win when it came to providing the best eating on trains in Europe?
02.12.07
travel + culture

Postcard from Krakow: Pierogi Paradise

I fell in love with pierogi when I was eight years old and the Polish grandmother of my best friend made them as an after-school treat.
01.18.07
travel + culture

2006: The Year in Travel

Your most memorable trip this year? Yangon, in Myanmar, a romantic, rain-soaked British imperial city like something out of Kipling.
12.27.06
travel + culture

Pulling Up the Welcome Map

Many Europeans say the U.S. is doing everything it can to discourage tourism.
12.22.06
travel + culture

Haute Cuisine, Haute Conscience

The first Fair Trade dish on a Paris restaurant menu has just debuted at L'Obelisque, one of the restaurants at the luxurious Hotel de Crillon.
12.21.06
travel + culture

The Ost With The Most

Seventeen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin is being swept by a curious nostalgia for the once-loathed Communist half of the country.
12.16.06
travel + culture

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

On Saturday morning the organic market on the Boulevard des Batignolles is busy with shoppers buying chestnuts, cepes, and fresh goat cheese.
12.14.06
food + cooking

Not Too Quick: Europe Says No To Fast Food

Fast Food Nation, the much-praised American film about the fast-food business, just opened in Paris and has instantly become a hit with the city's media crowd.
12.13.06
chefs + restaurants

Flying High With Alain Ducasse

Having just taken over the Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, the sky’s no longer the limit for gastronaut Alain Ducasse.
12.07.06
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