When a friend gave Joey Redner a taste of a beer that had been aged with Spanish cedar — the wood used to wrap and box cigars — he knew it was an idea worth stealing.

Nestled in the lush countryside of western Belgium, the abbey of St. Sixtus is home to 22 Trappist monks who have chosen a life of solitude and silence ruled by the sixth-century Benedictine principles of “ora et labora” — prayer and work.

RABAT -- Standing on the side of a road in a hectic north African capital may not be what most people would consider the ideal place to eat boiled snails.

A Rembrandt drawing stolen from a California luxury resort hotel and reportedly worth US$250,000 has been found in a church, though the thieves are still on the run, officials said Tuesday.

From an old-world Italian restaurant where Leonardo DiCaprio ate to the bakery where Cher found love, a New York tour company is taking movie fans to see where their favorite films were shot — in Brooklyn. Photographs of DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese are proudly displayed in the window of Ferdinando's Foccaceria restaurant, a location for the 2006 film “The Departed,” which won the Academy Award for best picture.

“Hell's Kitchen” chef Gordon Ramsay's Montreal restaurant opened for a second time Friday two days after flooding caused by malfunctioning sprinklers forced it to temporarily shut.

France is the home of the baguette, that savory, crisp staple of a fabled gastronomy. But just try getting a fresh one in the evening, or on a holiday, or even in August, when many of the country's 33,000 bakeries are closed.

Tests of more than 700 preschoolers' packed lunches found that fewer than 2 percent of the meats, vegetables and dairy products were cool enough to be safe, according to a U.S. study.

El Bulli, one of the world's most acclaimed and award-winning eateries, served its last supper Saturday.

McDonald's Corp. is adding apples to all its Happy Meals and launching a nutrition-focused mobile phone app as part of a broader health push.