Olive Oil from Sunny Provence? Hmm …
While olive oil is indelibly linked to the Mediterranean lifestyle, is it really all its packaged up to be? Here writer Bradley Kuett suggests keeping an eagle eye out for those tempting bottles at food fairs and buying only local labels from Moulin à huile producers. Olive Oil Wars: A Sunny Business with Shady Practices. Read [...]
Does Paris Love its Kiosks Enough?
Paris has had a love affair with its ornate newspaper kiosks for the past 150 years but there are growing fears they may disappear mainly…
Les Halles and The Little Shards of Paris
Les Halles in Paris, knocked down in the torpor of summer 41 years ago, was the foodies paradise of the time but how many know…
Toulouse Conference Celebrates Canal du Midi
Toulouse this summer hosts the 26th World Canals Conference in celebration of the 240km-long Canal du Midi, an event coinciding with increased concern about challenges…
Rocamadour Holds a 1000-Year Celebration
Rocamadour, the second most visited tourist attraction in France, is celebrating a millennial in 2013 amid signs that many more pilgrims will visit than the…
It’s Save the Frogs Time – Yes Really
Time to Save the Frogs — or better their legs — as global culinary demand for these sparks…
Light on the Dark Horses of the Camargue
The South African poet, adventurer, romanticist and bullfighter Roy Campbell wrote his bravura autobiography Light on a Dark Horse, after a spell…
Invisible, Undetectable Speed Cameras en route
Tempted to speed on those long, straight relatively uncluttered French roads? Well be warned because from Friday March 15, 300 Renault…
Notre-Dame de Chartres Returns to XIII.c Glory
Two million visitors a year walk in expectation of awe through the doors of Chartres, one of France’s…
Four and Twenty Merle … in a Corsican Pie
There’s a French saying, “Faute de grives, on mange des merles”(No thrushes? eat blackbirds) which basically means half a…
Fracking Sparks Fresh French Concerns
The French parliament has reopened the explosive issue of shale gas fracking in the face of grassroots opposition…
Bécasse — its the Season for Gourmets
In France woodcock season is an anxious wait for local hunters but even more so for gourmets who…
Blow to Hollywood-sur-Garonne
The Préfet of the Haute Garonne may have poured Pyrenean ice all over the idea but Bruno Granja, an architect…
Putting the Catfish Among the Pigeons
Fish in the Tarn river in southern France may well regard themselves as hunted — persecuted even —…
Seasons Of Mellowness and Boar Hunting
The winter solstice is not far off and wild boar hunts are in full cry across France as…
Versailles of Stud Farms Fears a €1.2bn Disaster
Prestigious French stud-farms in the Orne region — collectively considered the Versailles of Horse-Breeding– say the 190-year-old thoroughbred…
Provence Prestige Insists On Made in France
As job losses soar in the austerity-wracked economy, the call is out — buy Made in France —…
Lourdes: No Blessing for this Miracle Water Soap
France attracts nearly 51 million tourists to its famous religious sites, among them Lourdes in the south west…
French Bullfighting Beats Last Ditch Ban Effort
Animal rights groups spurred on by feisty veteran anti-bullfighter Brigitte Bardot have expressed anger and disappointment following a…
Viva l’Opéra – Live in a Cinema near You
The Paris Opéra Bastille production of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann opens the UGC cinema chain Viva l’Opéra 2012-2013 live…
Play the Nuclear Ball not the Green Man
If France were playing a rugby match between pro- and anti- nuclear teams, the results, at ten minutes…
Gold-Leafed High-Tech Fit for a King
French luxury goods — led by Louis Vuitton the world’s most valuable brand — (worth 22 billion euros…
Krys Transatlantic Race headed for Brest
The Tonnerres de Brest 2012 Festival of the Sea this year will also be the Bastille Day finishing line July 14,…
Reprising a Myth: Death of French Culture
Publishing an 3000-word article in Time magazine headed ‘The Death of French Culture’ is, one might think, a…
That Famous Mustard … uses Canadian seeds!
Terroir so tied to the mystique of France, its luxury food, wine and famous names, has long been a magnet…
First They Came for the Foie Gras….
Might France ban ketchup and hamburgers since the state of California has now outlawed foie gras? It’s an issue…
Read French News Online on Kindle
Now you can access French News Online via your Kindle reader and take us with you on holiday…
Pyrénées – No Barrier to a Cultural Cauldron
With Basques to the west and Catalans to the east the Pyrénées are a physical but not a…
‘Clik’ ‘Clik’ – Screw Caps on Wine Offensive
Luc Charlier, a Flemish winemaker who since 2005 has been producing Coume Majou in the Languedoc, claims corks…
Will Socialists end all Shale Fracking?
France’s Green Euro MEP José Bové, one of the leaders of the grass roots movement against fracking in…