Hearing the cheering from the birthday party across the Atlantic, we decided to go. France holds celebration for beloved Paris, two thousand years old, Europe's oldest capital after Athens and Rome.

Mighty like a rose and it is rose, a rose-petal honey made by a recipe taken from the famous Martha Washington cookbook, the original copy now owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

It's a little patch of heaven—gourmets' heaven, we mean—Bellows' Gourmets' Bazaar, 69 East Fifty-second Street, New York. Here we discovered little delicacies from the Continent not generally found in the States....

Volcanic hills, Romanesque churches and fortified towns overshadow the elemental, pork scented cookery of this noble and dramatic province.

The gastronomic peaks of this mountainous province are found, oddly enough, along the flat Valley of the Rhône.

Notes on the gustatory riches of a verdant province, from the unctuous fondue to that divine topaz nectar, Château-Châlon.

The sombre frontier bastion which produced Jeanne d'Arc and Verdun has its lighter moments for the delectation of Quiche Lorraine and Bar-le-Duc jam.

The Orléanais is a province overshadowed by its cities and its châteaux, but it is a definite and delightful parcel of France.

Visitors are less usual in this nostalgic Province, despite its simple and exquisite cooking.