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Offers a program of healthy food habits that can be practiced anytime and anywhere, with four seasons of strategies for cooking and shopping, accompanied by tips and tricks for living with style and pleasure, all without gaining weight.
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LibraryThing member Niecierpek
very preachy and full of generalizations with a 'besserwisser' attitude
LibraryThing member hjjugovic
I've read the first book and liked it better. Both advocate a very sensible approach to life and eating, most of which I strongly agree with and some of which I have put into practice in my own life. I think this one falls into snobbish territory. I'm not sure why the author felt the need to tell
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me patients (the flower) are overdone in landscape, but it's a turn off. If you can ignore the needlessly specific fashion advice and incessant french phrases, there's some good information here. Show Less
LibraryThing member AJBraithwaite
I seem to be on a run of books written by bossy people - first Joel Salatin and now Mireille Guiliano. I liked a lot of this book (I've not read her 'French women don't get fat' yet) - the parts about eating seasonally and the recipes particularly. But other bits seemed to shout 'smugness' at me in
And the instructions on how to wear scarves in various ways weren't useful without diagrams. I'm not sure they would have been useful with diagrams either, to be honest. Maybe I'm just never going to be a big scarf-wearer.
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a loud (French-accented) voice. It's lovely that the author has homes in Provence and New York and that she is on good terms with the proprietors of a two-starred Michelin restaurant. But I could probably have continued living my single-homed existence just as happily if I hadn't known about those things.And the instructions on how to wear scarves in various ways weren't useful without diagrams. I'm not sure they would have been useful with diagrams either, to be honest. Maybe I'm just never going to be a big scarf-wearer.
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