French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.