La Côte Basque, the high-society temple of classic French cuisine that became the setting of a catty and thinly veiled excerpt from an unfinished novel by Truman Capote, plans to shut down early next ...

In what could be seen as a gesture of poignant irony, Jean-Jacques Rachou, the longtime chef and owner of the In what could be seen as a gesture of poignant irony, Jean-Jacques Rachou, the longtime ...

Reporting from Boise, Idaho — For high school senior Alex Wray, there’s no stigma to his membership in a troupe that performs traditional old-world peasant dances. The 17-year-old also is an offensive ...

Before there was Ralph Lauren's Polo Bar in Manhattan (good luck trying to get in), there was La Côte Basque: The go-to restaurant for New York society, where the company one kept was more important ...

Palm trees and surfing, yoga and meditation. Such images may conjure up cities like Los Angeles or San Diego, but this also describes the “California of France” - as the Basque Country to the west of ...

Despite the small scope of the Basque Country – it has an area of less than 3,000 square miles – Basque cuisine has a premier position in the culinary world. Straddling the Spanish-French border, the ...