French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.