Today's exploration took us two hours north of Paris to the battlefields of World War I - historians refer to it as The Great War. A century ago these fields and rolling hills of northern France / southern Belgium were mired in trench warfare with neither side able to make much progress and with thousands… Continue reading The Great War revisited

As an avid amateur chef, I look looked very much forward to today's experience at Michelin starred Alain Ducasse cooking school. Located in the posh part of Paris in the 17th arrondissement, the school offers ongoing classes in a variety of styles. Our mission today was to prepare a main course of guinnea fowl with… Continue reading Cooking with Alain Ducasse