France's Alsace region is a quiet beauty located in the northeastern corner of the country, and it might just have it all. It’s a region densely populated with small family-run wineries, miles of ...
Alsace is having a culinary moment—a moment that’s lasted for several hundred years. “Farm-to-table isn’t some newly coined phrase for what’s occurring now in Alsace; it’s the way it’s always been,” ...
Until European travel becomes fully open to Americans, here's a reminder of the fun that awaits us in Europe. Biking down a newly paved but skinny one-lane service road through lush vineyards, I ...
Alsace is a picturesque region in eastern France, nestled between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine River. The area has changed hands between France and Germany multiple times in the past 600 years, ...
France's easternmost region, Alsace, is also one of its most enchanting — thanks largely to its location. Pressed up against the German border, along the Rhine, the region flip-flopped between Germany ...
Colmar, Alsace, France. Petit Venice, water canal and traditional half timbered houses. If you’re a wine lover, you must have noticed the many different “trends” in wine over the years. Some trends ...
The region is a French-German cultural hybrid with turreted castles, pretty villages and a hearty cuisine. Alsace is a cultural hybrid with its Germanic dialect and French sense of fashion, its love ...
When a wine-lover visits a wine region, it’s easy to forget there’s more to agriculture than grapes. In July, in Colmar, the absurdly picturesque town at the heart of the Alsace vineyards, Petit Jean ...
ON the east side of the circle of statues to French cities that bounds the Place de la Concorde, the female figure representing Strasbourg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine, for many years sat draped in ...
THE French Government at Vichy did not have the power to prevent the German Government from virtually annexing Alsace and Lorraine. Without even going through the pretense of organizing a plebiscite, ...