French cuisine is an essential part of French heritage, one of the main attractions for anyone heading there for a vacation. So why do the French appear to be so insecure about their greatest asset?

In America, the story of French food, on the surface at least, is simpler: It was the pinnacle, then it wasn’t. There are any number of reasons why it was toppled from its position of pre-eminence: ...

My French mother-in-law, Madeleine, was everything I had learned French women were not: She was an unpretentious woman who wore a crisply pressed cotton housedress over thick stockings and sensible ...

In 2025, France welcomed a record-high 102 million international tourists, with just under 10% of that number heading to the ...

Lyon: where the Rhône and Saône rivers meet and French food is as groundbreakingly delicious as ever. Les Apothicaires' crème prise absinthe, raisins, oxalis, and bourru Chignin-Bergeron. “I can't ...

Monsieur Robert, as he was sometimes called, died on August 22, and with him an era ended. Robert Treboux was an elderly Frenchman who ran Le Veau d’Or, New York’s most venerable outpost of la cuisine ...

I attended the monthly September Medicinal French Cuisine gathering.The theme for this month wasAutumn Circulation, A Course ...

In 2015, the top ten restaurants named in the annual list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants was truly an international assortment, with entries from nine different countries on four different ...