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Here is the Christmas feast of your dreams, starting with Oysters on the Half-Shell served over rice with a tangy Mignonette Sauce, a perfect counterpoint to silky Home-Smoked Salmon, served in delicate bundles filled with Cucumber Salad. It wouldn't be a Pepin Christmas without foie gras, and Jacques prepares both a classic baked terrine of Foie Gras in a delicate Cognac Aspic as well as a simple Salt-Cured Foie Gras served with roasted nuts, crunchy sea salt, and sweet preserves. The...

Located on the frontier between the West and the Orient, Venice has raised the art of masquerade and and narcissism to new heights. This city blessed by the gods has jealously guarded the secret of making glass and mirrors since the Middle Ages. We visit Venice's most treasured places, its legendary palazzi, and, stopping at an underground casino, bump into Casanova himself.

A symbol of modern Europe, Barcelona is a city renowned for its exceptional architecture. Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, where street festivals are spontaneous happenings, revealing their secular, folkloric traditions.

A political activist and composer of many South African freedom songs, "Watch Out Verwoerd!" ("The Black Man is coming!"), Vuyisilli Mini was condemned to death. South Africa, known for its brutal past, possesses a hidden treasure richer than its underground gold and diamond.

The country of the rising sun, the Tokaido or, literally "the road from the sea to the east," . Japan was created to put an end to the absolute power of the shoguns and the samurais.

Legendary country of the fabulous Cities of Gold that attracted adventurers and the Spanish conquistadors.

At the end of the 17th century in the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, Paris became the site of the most monumental architectural caprice in the history of France. Versailles !

Travelers who choose to visit Mount Athos, the Meteoras or the Island of Patmos will not only live through a memorable mystical experience. It will lead you into to the heart of the Byzantine Empire.

Celtic culture, which gave birth to the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, continues to feed the collective imagination of the West to this day.

In 1836, the start of the longest reigning queen of England coincides with the beginning of the career of the greatest British author since Shakespeare : Charles Dickens.

The Mother Grain is a documentary film about the rapid rise in the popularity of quinoa, with a focus on the lives and methods of the local Aymara and Quechua Bolivian farmers, who are descended from the Incas. Their Incan ancestors grew quinoa in the same region of the Andes Mountains as their descendants do today, and treated the grain with religious reverence. Even though the Spanish Conquistadors of the 16th Century suppressed quinoa growth, its cultivation and place of honor in isolated...

On January 12th, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, bringing devastation to an already impoverished nation. Hundreds of thousands lost their lives; more than 1 million were displaced, and tens of thousands were injured including countless children and young people who suffered the loss of limbs. Against this backdrop, two American organizations stepped in to provide aid. Facing political corruption and the threat of failure, Project Medishare successfully set up clinics for the...