As it is in so many places, the holiday season in France is all about family, friends, and food. While it’s generally a low-key affair marked by gatherings of relatives and treats for children, it ...

As it is in so many places, Christmas in France is all about family, friends, and food. While it’s generally a low-key affair marked by gatherings of relatives and treats for children, it also has the ...

The Bûche de Noël, or Yule Log cake, is a stunning culinary showpiece that traces its roots far back to the ancient celebration of Yule. Derived from the Anglo-Saxon word geōl, Yule references the ...

Christmas is this Thursday, with family gatherings of traditional foods. One of them, a French tradition, is the buche de noel log cake, symbolizing a log that is burned during the winter solstice for ...

One of the highlights of the Christmas season here in France is the food. The main feast usually happens on Christmas Eve and the traditional dessert is the incredible Yule log or bûche de Noël. More ...

In most parts of the world, the tradition of burning a Yule log, sometimes called a Christmas log, has largely fizzled out. While holiday cards may show charming birch logs aflame in a hearth, ...

The bûche de Noël, or yule log dessert, is the star of French holiday tables. In its Parisian birthplace, the pastry is reimagined in endlessly imaginative ways, sometimes in collaborations with ...

So you've made it through pumpkin patches, Halloween, Thanksgiving and, hopefully, gotten all your holiday shopping completed. There's just one more milestone in this seemingly endless marathon of ...

Every great Christmas feast ends off with a crowd-pleasing log cake. As flavour combinations get more experimental each year—think pistachio and cherry, or chocolate and tea—and classics get revamped, ...

Bûche de Noël, or Yule log, is the most traditional Christmas cake in France. It's a light jelly-roll-style cake that's filled with a decadent chocolate cream filling and rolled up into the shape of a ...