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

Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.

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

Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

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

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.