French Women for All Seasons
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Mireille Guiliano
For the legions of fans who asked for seconds after devouring French Women Don’t Get Fat, a charming and practical guide to adding some joie to your vie and to your table, every day of the year.By letter, by email and in person, readers of Mireille Guiliano’s phenomenal bestseller French Women Don’t Get Fat have inundated her with requests for more advice. Her answer: this buoyant new book, brimming with tips and tricks for living with the utmost pleasure and style, without gaining weight.More than a theory or ideal, the French woman’s way is an all-encompassing program that can be practised anytime, anywhere. Here are four full seasons of strategies for shopping, cooking and moving throughout the year. Whether your aim is finding two scoopfuls of pleasure in one of crème brûlée, or entertaining beautifully when time is short and expectations are high, the answers are here. And here too are 100 new simple and appetizing recipes that feature French staples such as leeks and chocolate and many more unexpected treats besides, guaranteeing that boredom will never be a guest at your table.Woven through this year of living comme les françaises are more of Mireille’s delectable stories about living in Paris and New York and travelling just about everywhere else – in the voice that has already beguiled a million honorary French women. Lest anyone still wonder: here is a new compendium of reasons – both traditional and modern – why French women don’t get fat.
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Author
Mireille Guiliano
Pages
368
Publisher
Random House of Canada
Published Date
2010-11-05
ISBN
0307369390 9780307369390
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"This was a bizarre book. A combination of some practical tips like “start by eating half of what you think you want and go from there”, and “don’t diet and deprive yourself, focus on pleasures that you savour”…and weird out of touch tips like “you could serve your wines all in the same type of glass to save on dishes” and “it might be cheaper to entertain 3-4 times a week at home than to host at a restaurant”<br/><br/>She talks about not dieting and how you shouldn’t exercise to work off overeating…and then suggests eating nothing but some light soup, and making sure you go on some extra walks in the day or meal after indulging. Very self-contradictory. <br/><br/>She also comes across completely out of touch with people who aren’t wealthy white DINKs. Most of her tips are out of reach for somebody with children. <br/><br/>There are also bizarre recipes such as canned tuna with bananas in a yogurt sauce. Some recipes looked intriguing but given the weird taste there, I don’t trust the occasional odd combos she features. <br/><br/>I actually quite enjoyed her chapter on wine, but it popped up totally out of nowhere and didn’t fit the rest of the book at all. <br/><br/>The best part is the concept through the book of being gentle with yourself, of enjoying and savouring rather than restricting and depriving. Perhaps the cultural gap is too big, but this book just didn’t hit the right notes for me."
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Teresa Prokopanko