From the author of French Women Don't Get Fat, the #1 NationalBestseller, comes an essential guide to the art of joyful living—inmoderation, in season, and, above all, with pleasure. Together with a bounty of new dining ideas and menus, MireilleGuiliano offers us fresh, cunning tips on style, grooming, andentertaining. Here are four seasons' worth of strategies forshopping, cooking, and exercising, as well as some pointers forlooking effortlessly chic. Taking us from her childhood inAlsace-Lorraine to her summers in Provence and her busy life in NewYork and Paris, this wise and witty book shows how anyone anywherecan develop a healthy, holistic lifestyle.
Embraces not only the marvels of French cooking but Frenchhistory, language, landscape, and customs as well. Here is Francefor the traveler, the chef, and the connoisseur of fine prose. Mapsand b w line drawings throughout.