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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Rural traditions are central to Basque identity, and to their claim to being a nation, different from the rest of Spain. One such tradition took place Saturday in the Basque village of Azpeitia: the ...

A half-century-old Basque handball court that was nearly knocked down to make way for a parking lot is Colorado’s newest historic treasure. The History Colorado Board of Directors last week approved a ...

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.

Local men at an old-fashioned water fountain in Bilbao, Spain, as the very modern structures of the new Guggenheim Museum fill the landscape on Sept. 26, 1997. The $100 million museum financed by the ...