A vendor serves hot wine on the first day of the Christmas market in Strasbourg, eastern France, on November 27, 2024. (Photo by Abdesslam MIRDASS / AFP) It's Christmas market season, and as well as ...

I learned at a young age that starting international or multicultural holiday traditions can be fun (and delicious). Every Christmas, my Russian great-aunt, who taught high school French in New York ...

To try Veronique's grandmother's recipe for bûche de Noël, the traditional French Christmas cake, click here. When I was growing up in California, my grandmother always made our bûche de Noël. She was ...

My first true Christmas in France, 12 years ago, almost didn’t happen. The day before flying to meet my fiancée in Paris, I’d gone to a Walgreens near my parents’ house in central New Jersey to get a ...