This delightful, timeless account of young love and an old hotel inspired more responses from our readers than anything else ever printed in the magazine.

Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz takes a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico to sample regional specialties in the land of seven moles.

Life was a banquet for one young girl in Delhi.

The Hôtel de la Côte-d'Or. in Saulieu has almost the character of a national shrine.

To get a dry Martini, one must unhesitatingly ask for a Martini-gin, pronounced zheen.

Louis Diat, once the celebrated head chef at New York's Ritz, as well as a prolific Gourmet contributor, offers a behind-the-scenes peek at the posh hotel's old-world holiday traditions, complete with 11 recipes for ritzy Christmas specialties...