ELKO, Nev. — The old Basco sat at the end of the bar, drinking his usual--a powerful punch of picon liquor, club soda, grenadine and brandy. When he spoke, which wasn’t much, it was the language of ...

The air was sharp with an early fall chill as we sat out on the patio of Bar Gernika sipping Spanish wines. The little ...

2005-08-21 04:00:00 PDT San Sebastian, Spain-- Anna Intxausti doesn't look like a Cro-Magnon, but she might sound like one. Intxausti is a Basque, and her language is the oldest and most enigmatic in ...

For almost 800 years the farmers of Tolosa have spent their Saturdays doing exactly as they do today: rising early, while it's still cold and dark outside and loading their trucks – once their horses ...

The cuisine of the Basque country -- in the western Pyrenees straddling northern Spain and southeastern France -- just could be the most glorious food you've never heard of. At least, not in detail ...

Every year as the sun climbs high at the time of the summer solstice, I gather up my tribe of food-obsessed friends for a mass migration to a remote Sierra Nevada meadow where we bake some bread. It's ...

A quaint bakery still uses old methods to make the region's beloved shortbread cake. In France's Basque country, a quaint bakery still uses old methods to make the region's beloved shortbread cake.

These beloved wall sports are considered to be the descendants of a 17th-Century game and the direct ancestors of tennis, squash and racket ball. I am dazzled by the rural beauty of France's Basque ...