Champagne is served in the Perching Bar, Didier Couteau, right is the boss.

Tasting French Champagne: A Transcendent Experience

By Richard Frisbie When touring the Champagne region north of Paris recently, many of the best establishments I frequented offered me champagne. Imagine if Heaven followed this tradition, you can be sure St. Peter would greet new arrivals with a glass of Taittinger champagne! Taittinger Champagne There are two cellars…

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Lyon, France–the Capital of Gastronomy

Studying Gastronomy in Lyon, France’s Culinary Capital By Jaclyn C. Stevenson It was 8:30 in the morning and I was standing in an overflow of sounds, smells, and sights, flanked by bouquets of daisies on my right and ox tongues on my left. The public market in Lyon, France is…

Making macarons, a famous cookie, in a baking class taught all in French in Tours, France.

A Self-Catered Vacation in Tours, France

Budget Travel: Cooking for Yourself in an Apartment in France By Max Hartshorne GoNOMAD Editor I rented a small apartment in Tours, a city of about 70,000, two hours south of Paris on the Loire River. I had been here twenty years ago when my wife and I took our…

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Touring Carcassone in the South of France

Ancient Bones, Fine Wine and Fairy-Tale Castles “Racing around circular stone staircases and wooden tunnels atop the Bastille, envisioning heretics and horsemen attacking from the other side, that really struck a nerve in my travel soul.” by Sony Stark Unhurried pleasures and fairy-tale photography await you in Carcassone and the…

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