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A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure
Knopf
November 2006
On Sale: October 31, 2006
369 pages
ISBN: 0307265234
EAN: 9780307265234
Hardcover
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By letter, e-mail, and in person, readers of Mireille
Guiliano’s phenomenal best seller, French Women Don’t Get
Fat, have inundated her with requests for more of her
cunning but simple secrets to living the good life, the
ways French women manage to enjoy wine, chocolate, and
many other seductive pleasures without gaining weight.
Mireille’s answer? This buoyant book brimming with fresh
advice and seasonal stories—on food bien sûr (more than
100 delicious new recipes) but also on many other aspects
of living that should bring us pleasure, such as picking a
wine, dressing well, even arranging flowers. French women not only stay slim while relishing life to
the fullest, they also have the longest life expectancy in
the Western world. And now Mireille shows us how they
attune themselves to the rhythms of the year. Together
with a bounty of new dining ideas and menus, she offers us
a treasury of tips on style, grooming, and entertaining,
all designed to focus the mind on sensory pleasure for
maximum enjoyment. Here are four seasons’ worth of
strategies for shopping, cooking, and exercising, as well
as some pointers for looking effortlessly chic. Whether
your aim is finding two scoopfuls of pleasure in one of
crème brûlée or entertaining beautifully when time is
short and expectations are high, the inspiration you need
is here. Taking us from her childhood in Alsace-Lorraine
to her summers in Provence and her busy life in New York
and Paris, this book of scrumptious Gallic wisdom and wit
shows how anyone anywhere can develop a healthy, holistic
lifestyle. In the voice that entranced more than a million honorary
French women, Mireille demonstrates that there is indeed
an art to joyful living, and that equilibrium—being bien
dans sa peau and true to one’s individual nature—is the
key to a long and healthy life. Full of sage, irresistible
advice on everything from decanting to detoxing, from
yogurt to yoga, French Women for All Seasons is an
essential guide to savoring all life’s moments—in
moderation, in season, and, above all, with pleasure.
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