UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage has inscribed equitation in the French tradition, with specific reference to the Cadre Noir of Saumur (Loire Valley), on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage [...]

Two ways of looking at the Seine: through the eyes of the Impressionists in the guidebook “La Seine Impressionniste” and through the eyes of a videographer in the video “Notre train quotidien” (Our Daily Train).

There’s a special atmosphere to the gardens and parks of Paris in winter, before the leaves appear on the trees and block the view. Brandon Eckhoff has captured that atmosphere though a series of photographs [...]

I’ve been to the palace and gardens of Versailles dozens of times but never on such a quiet, empty afternoon as this. It was a Monday, the day the palace is closed to the public, [...]

In the context of my investigations into the culinary world of Guy Martin, the chef who presides over the ovens at Paris’s stellar Grand Véfour, I joined a group of Paris-based food bloggers for a class at his cooking workshop. Includes video.

Paris has historical bridges, elegant bridges, workaday bridges, metro bridges, and pedestrian bridges; it has stone bridges, iron bridges, and 2-, 3-, and 5-span bridges. And it has one most evocative bridge in its Mirabeau [...]

One of these days we’ll get around to making a real video for “On a Train from Paris to Rome” — music by Jordan Zell, lyrics by Gary Lee Kraut — but in the meantime you can watch and listen to a practice performance of the song by Jordan Zell and Yuri Stolov at the Putin Bar in Jerusalem in November 2009.

On a typical day nothing about the remote town of Saint-Agrève (pop. 2,600) would allow the rare visitor to imagine that its inhabitants have the slightest interest in Americana. But for five days in mid-August, [...]