My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.

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.

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

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

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.