This weekend’s choices range from an Argentinian Cab and a “Wasabi” white to a run-to-buy Montepulciano and food-friendly French Sauvignon Blanc.

When the typical French diet and lifestyle often includes high-fat foods as well as cigarettes? Their studies showed that, surprisingly, it was the French habit of drinking a glass or two of red wine each day that protected them from developing these chronic diseases.

Are you ready to try French food...REAL French food? This isn't fear factor, but you may begin to think so when you try this place out. Not only do they have some of the best wines in France, but they also have some of the most traditional French food as well.

We love the French and their passion for fab food, fashion, wine and, of course, whimsy. Who else could make the everyday toaster look fit for a life-size Barbie playset? We applaud Pylônes...

In France, eating well and staying slim is a constant preoccupation. But few people diet or go to the gym and no one takes food scares seriously. Another day, another diet scare. As British consumers panic about the latest report saying that red meat and wine may cause cancer. The French think we're hilarious with our faddy diets and food obsession

Richard Olney (1927 – July 31, 1999) was an American painter, cook, food writer, editor, and memoirist, best known for known for his books of French country cooking.Olney lived in a house above the village of Solliès-Toucas in Provence, France, for most of his adult life, where he wrote many classic and influential cookbooks of French country cooking. He had first moved to France in 1951, to Paris, where he was close friends with (and painted many of) the American and English bohemian expatriate set, including James Baldwin, filmmaker Kenneth Anger, painter John Craxton, poet John Ashberry, and composer Ned Rorem.His deep knowledge of traditional classic French food and wine got him a job writing a column entitled Un Américain (gourmand) � Paris for the journal Cuisine et Vins de France beginning in 1962. After The French Menu Cookbook was published in English in 1970, his then-revolutionary approach of seasonal menus and close attention to wine pairings began to attract notice in Britain and America. By the time he wrote Simple French Food in 1974, he was one of the most important food writers of the era, with a huge impact on nouvelle cuisine and California cuisine.Alice Waters, of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, and Kermit Lynch, the well-known Berkeley wine writer and retailer, were both disciples. He introduced Lynch to the French wine growers who were to lead him to his new career, before he even had his first wine shop, including Lucien and Lulu Peyraud of Domaine Tempier, who were then re-establishing the Bandol AOC as a vineyard area of the first rank.From 1977 to 1982, Olney edited the 27-volume Time-Life book series The Good Cook. By the time of his death, from heart failure, in addition to the Time-Life set he had written many of his own brilliant, idiosyncratic, poetic books about food and wine. His last book, Reflexions, a memoir, was published posthumously.