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travel + culture

Seven Reasons to Love Paris Bistros

07.10.07
travel + culture

A Guide to French Food Guides

Though the Michelin Guides remains a national bestseller, the French are plumping for other guides when looking for great new restaurants during their travels.
06.08.07
chefs + restaurants

First Taste: Chéri Bibi

Tucked away on the eastern slope of the Butte de Montmartre, Chéri Bibi is a sure sign this appealingly ramshackle neighborhood is up for gentrification.
06.07.07
travel + culture

Basques Blast Ducasse

Four years after opening L'Ostape, a country inn near Bidarray in French Basque country, Alain Ducasse has withdrawn from the project.
02.26.07
travel + culture

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

Shooting Themselves in the Plate?

The French restaurant world is in an uproar over the recent decision to apply France’s 35-hour workweek to the restaurant trade.
12.03.06
magazine

French Seasoning

The half-timbered towns of Alsace, France’s province along the Rhine, already feel like storybook villages.
December 2006
recipes

French Onion Soup

This version of the classic is gorgeously cheesy, not gunky. Slow cooking gives the broth depth of flavor and a silky texture.
December 2006
travel + culture

They Like Us, They Really Like Us

A growing number of Japanese tourists suffer from Paris Syndrome, a psychological incapacitation brought on by the gap between the fairytale and the reality of a city.
11.08.06
travel + culture

I'll Have the Aspic Special

A slightly wacky move is afoot to have French cuisine registered by UNESCO as a World Heritage listing.
11.03.06
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