Delicious excerpts:
In French Women Don`t Get Fat, I introduced readers to the basic elements of joie de vivre; here, we take up l`arte de vivre, the finer points of living life to the full.
In the twenty-first century, we can no longer expect to receive lifestyle as an inheritance; it has become a matter of active choice.There is no cordon sanitaire to keep Pizza Hut out of France. On the other hand, there is also nothing barring you from importing what is beneficial from the classic French lifestyle and finding ways to make it work where you live. Long ago, I made the connection that a serious interest in food, this pillar of the French way of life, is the main reason why, overwhelmingly and by tradition, French women don`t get fat.
It is..... the culture of moderation, and painstaking attention to taste and helathy eating which I later adapted to twenty-first century living: a back- to- basics approach to life, filled with quality foods and pleasure --- but free of diets.