It is a sunny mid-spring Monday morning as I look out from the crenellated battlements of Château de Castelnaud. Beneath me, the Dordogne river, still full of the downpours of the last few weeks, ...

People sitting and enjoying their time in Monpazier's Place des Cornières or main square. Ridley Scott has a thing for Monpazier. After first filming "The Duelists," starring Harvey Keitel, in the ...

A gray minivan bumps down an unmarked lane one recent morning and pulls into what appears to be a neatly groomed, dormant orchard. On the sloping, one-acre plot stand 500 filbert trees, bushes really, ...

The famous French gastronome, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, once referred to Perigord black truffles as "the diamonds of cookery." But Daniele Mazet-Delpeuch, who grew up at her grandparents' foie-gras ...

A tabletop laden with goodies showcases the nut culture of the French Périgord, where locals make cheese, bread, oil and liqueur using the area’s walnuts. Photo by Alastair Bland Walnuts, like almonds ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A truffle is the fruiting body of an underground mushroom. The black truffle, or black “Périgord” truffle, is named after the Périgord region in France. It has a pungent ...

To take full advantage of the Perigord region, which I consider the soul of France, I recommend la Tour de Cause, located in the tiny village of Pont- de-Cause, just over a mile from the town of ...

If only Benoit Courreges were in Sacramento. Surely, he'd solve the case of the missing wine. The wine is Bergerac, an appellation in the Périgord region of southwest France, just east of Bordeaux. Of ...