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.

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.

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

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

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

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

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.