France

Serious Drinking: Discovering Rhone Wines at Decouvertes

Découvertes en Vallée du Rhône is a biennial wine event held up and down the Rhône Valley for four long, thrilling days, involving the systematic tasting of mostly red wine by thousands of eager tasters from all over the world, and the systematic inebriation by same each night. Each day, is roug ... More >>

How to Survive a Plague Review: New Doc About AIDS Organization ACT UP

2 Days in New York Review: Julie Delpy Directs Herself and Chris Rock

Julie Delpy brings the Paris gang to the city, along with Chris Rock

Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That's Wrong With Movies

Shades of Rosé

For years, wine writers have been haranguing their readership to drink more rosé, a category that plainly couldn't catch a break either among macho types who opined that pink wine was too, well, pink, or the rest of the wine-drinking public, who assumed that, since the wine was the color of white z ... More >>

Lucques' 9th Annual Cassoulet Night Is Coming: Make Reservations Now

If you're not doing anything really important for dinner on Sun., March 4 -- and maybe even if you are -- you now have someplace to be. Every year for one night, Lucques co-owners Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne host a cassoulet night in place of one of their customary Sunday Suppers. This year will ... More >>

LudoBites 8: The Wine List

LudoBites 8 (with its eminently more sane booking policy) debuted last night, which means a new wine list curated by Domaine LA along with chef Ludo and his wife, Krissy. The big news: the wine list now includes beer and cider (a Normandy cide from Domaine du Manoir in Montreuil, France, to be preci ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Boxing Match, Eat My Blog, Food of the Jews of France, Breakfast with Santa, Artisanal LA

It's a bake sale!​Boxing Match Boxed wine: scourge of snooty oenophiles, emblem of populist wine drinkers, re-embraced by thrifty contrarians. The stuff has, supposedly, improved by leaps and bounds since Trader Joe's cleverly repackaged the it in bottles and sold it as Two Buck Chuck. Decide ... More >>

Planes, Trains, Citroëns French Fries: Air France to Fuel Planes with Cooking Oil

Flickr/ldrose​ If you needed another reason to book an Air France flight to Paris, you can now do so in the name of environmentalism. Well, at least if you ignore the carbon footprint part. According to Mother Nature Network, Air France-KLM has announced that this fall it will start fueling pl ... More >>

There's No Porno Like Old French Porno

Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

​ CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>

Silver Foxes and Silver Vixens: Top Ten Musicians "Of a Certain Age" That You'd Still Do

Pray you are this cool at 58​Sheila E.'s being just as hot as she was in Krush Groove at her recent appearances during Prince's 21 Nite Stand at the Forum sent us spinning fantasies involving other musicians who are just as hot (or hotter) with a little age on 'em. This is our list, though- wh ... More >>

Of Gods and Men

Saveur Foodie Giveaway 2011: Did You Forget?

Saveur​ We hate decreasing our odds of winning a Wüsthof cleaver or a Le Creuset baking dish, but we'd be remiss if we didn't remind you that Saveur is in the midst of its annual Foodie Giveaway. The contest, which kicked off on January 1st and runs through the end of February, features a g ... More >>

Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS Le Bernardin's Numbers

A. ScattergoodEric Ripert at the Chateau Marmont​ Eric Ripert was in town a few weeks ago on a book tour for his fourth and most recent cookbook, Avec Eric, a sort-of companion book to his Emmy award-winning PBS show of the same name. We met Ripert at the Chateau Marmont, his customary hang-ou ... More >>

G20 to Address Rising Food Prices

Flickr/John Rohana grocery aisle in Korea​ How long has it been since you thought groceries were cheap? Everyone has noticed the increase in food prices, and now the G20, a group composed of the heads of state of 20 of the world's largest economies, is poised to do something about it. Accord ... More >>

Q & A With Joan Nathan, Part 2: Kosher Wines, "Newish Jewish" How Tom Colicchio (Literally) Saved Her Life

Joan Nathan​In the first part of our conversation with Joan Nathan, we drove around the hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, (via speakerphone) of this award-winning cookbook writer and authority on all things Jewish cuisine, as she explained who loves matzo in France (apparently everybody), ... More >>

Q & A With Joan Nathan: Her New Book, Jewdar The Secret French Matzo Society

​Tonight's sundown is the sixth night of Chanukah. To celebrate this occasion, we check in with Joan Nathan, award-winning author of ten cookbooks about Jewish cuisine, the latest being Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France (Knopf). It's part cookbook, part inve ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Ou Est Le Cassoulet À L.A.?

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: My wife had a great cassoulet in Paris several years ago. Is there a place in Southern California that has a real French cassoulet? I know this is the time of year they make it. --Jim Nakano, Glendora Dear Mr. Nakano: The Donut Man! It g ... More >>

KINGS OF PASTRY

Movie Review: Skirt Day

Les 50 Francais qui Comptent aux Etats-Unis en 2010: #1? Ludo

Free Pizza in Ireland For France's World Cup Exit

Flickr/rick​ I guess you could call this the luck of the Irish. After Ireland lost a shot at going to the World Cup after a dubious call (see Thierry Henry's infamous handball episode) sent France to the Cup instead, Pizza Hut's Irish stores decided to assuage the nation's pain with pizza. For ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Should I Move to France? (28 Questions to Ask Yourself) [David Lebovitz] -- Wendy's pulls disco CD from kid's meals because of "racy" Donna Summer lyrics. So now they can just go home and listen to ... More >>

"We're Not Sexual Blobs!"

Pocahaunted's Amanda Brown on their "body music," loving leather, and getting funky with the French

The Edible Schoolyard, Paris Edition: Champs-Elysees Transformed Into Farmers Market

Daily Mail​ If you were lucky enough to be in Paris yesterday and today, we hope you meandered over to the Champs-Elysees to check out one of the most beautiful ad hoc farmers markets you're ever likely to see. To celebrate a 2-day French public holiday, the street before the Arc de Triomphe w ... More >>

Crepe Truck Wars: Crepe'n Around vs. La Galette Creperie

They say Paris is gorgeous in spring. But if you can't make it all the way to France, two new crepe trucks are doing their best to bring a bit of Paris to Los Angeles. The real question: is this town big enough for two crepe trucks? Crepe'n Around (Twitter: @crepenaround), launched by sisters Eile ... More >>

Yippee Ki Yay, Fils de Putain

Cowboy diplomacy from our man in Paris, John Travolta

Sparkling Wines for the Holidays: Bubbles That Won't Blow Your Budget, Overly

​Dom, Veuve. Perfect toastables if your '09 funds have lingering residuals for the French, bubbly and decadent. Not so perfect if you're looking for something to squeeze into your budget. So, what's the alternative for revelers looking to keep it at or under 20? Sparkling wines. Wines produ ... More >>

ENCHANTREUSE

Death Row Last Meals: Cheeseburger & Fries

A. Scattergoodcomme Ca's cheeseburger & pommes frites​What would you eat for your last meal? How about if you were on death row? And would you get it?

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/17 - 10/23

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "A truly great dive bar is like a successful horror movie: it's a little gross, maybe a bit scary, but always a fun adventure, and filled with an eclectic cast of characters."

Cassoulet Nights at Bistro LQ: The Southwest of France, on Beverly

If you're the sort of person whose idea of a fun time is curling up with a mug of Armagnac and a sauce-spattered vintage edition of Paula Wolfert's 1983 classic The Cooking of Southwest France, then you might want to make reservations at Bistro LQ next Tuesday or Wednesday night. Both nights chef La ... More >>

Never Land

Being Jewish in France: MOTs meet friend and foe in history-minded doc

FACE IT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PARIS ANYTIME SOON

Best Stuff De France: Charme D'Antan

Bons Away! City of Lights, City of Angels

French-film festival delivers the goods

Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis

France's biggest French-language hit comes to the U.S.

Tomdispatch: As the World Burns

New Yorker Art Editor Françoise Mouly and Professor of Islamic Studies Mark Levine parse the war of words in Paris

The French Insurrection

Cars burn, Islam benefits

The French Revolt

Rejection of a corporate Europe

Ask Mr. Gold

Poet Against the War

The Year in Film

Patriot Games

In the Mood for Wong Kar-wai

The year’s best films

Chez Moi

In a village through time

Wonder Boys and Girls

Our year at the movies

E*A*T