france

Recipes

• Onion Soup Les Halles
  Anthony Bourdain's French onion soup
• Spiked Apple Galette
  Calvados doubles the apple flavor
• Celery Root and Squash Gratin with Walnut-Thyme Streusel
  Ring in fall with this seasonal gratin

Grinders

• Edward Behr Rocks the Jura
  The new quarterly installment of The Art of Eating is out, and it features a synapse-searing profile of wines from France's Jura vineyards.
• The Epidemic Spreads to the Continent
  Contrary to the assertion of a recent best-selling diet book, the French rate of obesity has doubled in the past few years.
• Demand Number 2: Eat Brie or Die
  France's Union for Viticultural Action has taken vigorous representation of an economic interest to a new level.
• Bye-Bye, Baguette?
  One of France's most celebrated bakers is urging her fellow Frenchies to lay off the baguettes and turn to whole-grain loaves instead.
• Garlic Begone!
  What's with European epicures suddenly renouncing their national culinary staples?
• Déjeuner Envy
  Lunch is a battlefield, but not in France.
• Beaujolais, the Old and the New
  A new book redeems Georges Duboeuf, the man who put Beaujolais on the world's lips.
• Everyone Speaks Nutella
  Nutella experiments from fiendish (and probably now nauseous) fans.
• That New French Fragrance: Fresh Air
  France bans smoking in cafés and restaurants; it's no longer quite so chic to light up with your café au lait.
• Woe the Truffle-Lover
  Drought, climate change endanger the French truffle harvest.
• Let's Go Slumming
  A preposterous "poverty tour" in Thailand goes awry.
• Expensive Escargot
  Rising prices hit the snail sector.

Picks

• Translation Not Needed
  A food magazine is worth a thousand words.

TastingNotes

• La Vie en Rosé
  Why do we still face the "pink" problem?
• When Roots Go Deep
  Xavier Monnot's family has been making wine for 11 generations.

Stories

• Absinthe Will Get You in Trouble
  But you can own as much of the gear as you like
• Bistronomics 101
  French chef Iñaki Aizpitarte proves that you don’t need a trust fund to afford haute cuisine
• Good Imported Wines Under $10
  Save money and drink well