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Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and
just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could
radically change the way you think and live.
French women don’t get fat, but they
do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course
meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the
simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how
to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming,
sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and
eating for our times.
As a typically slender French girl, Mireille
(Meer-ray) went to America as an exchange student
and came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent
tailspin, until her kindly family physician, “Dr. Miracle,”
came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles
of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local
women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole
new understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt
or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things
you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional
wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without
bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day.
Now in simple but potent strategies and
dozens of recipes you’d swear were fattening, Mireille
reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control–from
the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday
tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless
new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Emphasizing
the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and always
pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to
eat, drink, and move like a French woman.
A natural raconteur, Mireille illustrates
her philosophy through the experiences that have shaped her
life–a six-year-old’s first taste of Champagne,
treks in search of tiny blueberries (called myrtilles)
in the woods near her grandmother’s house, a near-spiritual
rendezvous with oysters at a seaside restaurant in Brittany,
to name but a few. She also shows us other women discovering
the wonders of “French in action,” drawing examples
from dozens of friends and associates she has advised over
the years to eat and drink smarter and more joyfully.
Here are a culture’s most cherished
and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century.
For anyone who has slipped out of her zone, missed the flight
to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips,
here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine,
bread–even chocolate–without girth or guilt? Pourquoi
pas?
Born and raised in France, Mireille
Guiliano first lived in America as an exchange student
and came back for good early in her professional career. She
is president and CEO of Clicquot, Inc., whose headquarters
are in New York, and a director of Champagne Veuve Clicquot
in Reims. Married to an American, Mireille lives most of the
year in New York and makes frequent trips to Paris as well
as across America.
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