Homemade Lemon Cake

I read both Les Miserable and The Hunchback of Notre Dame when I was a teenager, my era of doing deep and thorough dives into the classics...

Our last meal in France! We made it a good one, walking the mile or so from our hotel right outside Le Gard Notre train station, so we got...

We wended our way back towards Paris after a week in Alsace, and this part of the Champagne region is much more charming than staying in Re...

We ate on the patio at this one star Michelin restaurant for my birthday-- the nice thing about it, besides that it was a beautiful day and...

This is a Michelin noted restaurant, and here is what they have to say about it: Tucked away in a small Alsace village on the Mont Sainte O...

This was one of the most intensely herbal meals I have ever had and I loved it. They have a massive garden and they are not afraid to use ...

And so we start our education of Alsace wines! We are staying on the edge of the Rue du Vin, and spent the day driving through charming vil...

This was the meal that my spouse wanted to have the first day but we couldn't quite swing, because for one, we were not quite in Alsac...

This was our first stop after landing in Paris. Originally we had planned to take the train to Alsace and rent a car from there, taking adv...

We spent almost a week in Basque country and one day of it was spent in French Basque ountry. We did not get to a memorable bakery, and we ...

Yet another seaside town on the Bay of Bengal. Pondicherry, India, was under French rule for 138 years, from 1674 to 1954. In 1673, Frenc...

This was our last lunch of the trip (which has been a stellar food trip, no doubt about it). I like to have a lot of things from the ocean ...

150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, the first impressionist exhibition opened in Paris. “Hungry for independence”, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Mori...

is where Jim Morrison, the Doors singer, is buried, but also numerous French statesmen, writers and singers. The Père Lachaise is located ...

Gustave Moreau first rose to fame with the exhibition in the 1864 Salon of his Oedipe et le sphinx, though, from the 1880s onwards, he incr...

After a very pleasant train ride to Paris, we shed our luggage and headed to Aux 2 K for a late lunch. It is tiny—only 10 two person tables...

We spent a little time in Paris our last trip to France. We are starting to love not having a connection in Europe, to fly to a city near ...

Our late spring trip to France featured a number of restaurants that have a Michelin star and this was one of them--it was my husband's...

Here’s a cool thing—since we were already going to Saintes, Joel looked in the France Rough Guide for other things in the area and found th...

Saintes was originally a prosperous settlement in the area of the Santones, a Gallic tribe, and the town became the chief centre of the dis...