If you're looking for a gift for that beloved gourmet Francophile in your life or just feel like owning a bit of French soil, check out this truffle tree adoption scheme in Gascony, France. ...
If you love French vintage kitchenware from 1900-1960 but can't make it to Paris, D.O.T. (Diffusion d'Objets de Table) on rue Saintonge in the Marais has an affordable solution for you. Their online U...
British designer Cath Kidston’s vintage-inspired patterns include kitchen goods like retro aprons, tea towels, oven mitts, paper napkins, tea cosies and more in florals, stripes and woven checks to ...
This month's Gourmet magazine focuses on splashy cooking school vacations, where the charm of traveling through a foreign country is matched with classes focusing on that country's cuisine. There's on...
Tom's Deli on Westbourne Grove in London is a favorite spot for a sit-down breakfast or lunch. But the full-service deli also has fresh take-out sandwiches, prepared salads, fish cakes, and baked good...
For anyone with an interest in cooking, a trip to the Paris brocantes -- roving antique fairs that set up shop around Paris in every season but summer -- is a lesson in kitchen nostalgia. From vintage...
Bleinhem Crescent is a fabulous little London oasis for the home cook, with the Books for Cooks bookshop/café and The Spice Shop right across the street. ...
The outdoor stalls of London's Portobello Road market have a wealth of tea-related paraphernalia, from toast caddies to tea cups in a riot of English patterns. But if you wind your way into the indoo...
On the way back to Geneva from Languedoc, we stopped at another market in the French Alps region of Rhône-Alpes. Here are some pictures from this beautiful market; we hope you enjoy them....
It's Garden Month, which means that we're not only looking at our own gardens but the larger fields and farms of agriculture across the world. We were fascinated by this glimpse of tea and cacao plant...
We were in Geneva, Switzerland attending a conference last week, and had a few days off, so we hopped the border to France to visit a good friend in Languedoc-Rousillion, a region in the south central...
As we clicked through the slideshow of Chocolate & Zucchini's Clotilde Dusoulier food shopping in Paris, we got jealous of those beautiful, sweet macarons she seemed to be enjoying so much. Then...
Tomorrow we're leaving to go to Switzerland for a conference, and it's going to be a long trip from San Francisco to Geneva - 14 hours! Airplane food is not known for being particularly tasty, and we...
Reader Ashley recently wrote to us with a snapshot of her visit to Red Sun Farm, a grass-fed beef and poultry operation near Cincinnati, Ohio. This is so inspiring to us! As the weather warms and th...
We're packing for a flight tomorrow, and of course that packing includes a snack to make the hours in the air more palatable. Inspired by Saveur's March theme of butter, we washed some radishes, spoon...
Escape to the farm. As Escapes Month winds down, here's a shout-out to maybe our favorite escape: a day in the country to see where our food is grown. We're temporarily living in the country at the ...
Chocolate in the making. We visited the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory in Berkeley, California, and took a few pictures. This is a highly recommended trip; the tour is free, and you get to sample ...
Whenever I travel I love to check out local grocery stores, food emporiums and farmers markets. In a time when Trader Joe's are popping up everywhere, there's a bit a thrill when you stumble into loc...
The last full day of work here in Spain had us (some of us) tasting brandy at 10:30am in a dark and moldy old bodega. Perhaps not something you'd like to do every day, but as a one-shot deal, it wa...
There's nothing like a high-speed train as a way of seeing a country. In only two and a half short hours, we went from Madrid to Sevilla, blasting through country-side that was filled with olive tr...
Malpica is in the La Mancha Castilla region, just south of Madrid, near Toledo. It is here that Osborne built their $45million winery. But to call it a winery would be to mislead you. It's more l...
We awoke in Bilbao and retired in Madrid, and in-between we spent the day touring the Bodegas Montecillo in the Rioja region, where Osborne's Montecillo wines are made. We toured the facility wit...
Flying into Bilbao on the northern coast of Spain is a spectacular experience and makes you forget your travel woes. Green, hilly, with strong breezes and crisp air. It feels almost like Ireland, ...
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