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A review by mc10
French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano
4.0
As a French speaker, I loved how French this book is. It explains an important aspect of French culture and habits, with maybe a little bit of generalization and presumptuousness, which makes it entertaining to read.
The main message is to enjoy food and be mindful and critical of your eating habits, in contrast with the American, and basically, the whole globalized world, cultural conditioning of eating anything and everything just because. I don't even know what I enjoyed the most, the book itself or the offended Americans on the reviews. In a very French way, the author compares both cultures and while we can't accept everything as a universal truth, it really doesn't say anything that we haven't heard before, which is why its message really resonated with me, because it doesn't get complicated, it's simple but to the point. Maybe it was the francophone in me, but I really enjoyed it.
The main message is to enjoy food and be mindful and critical of your eating habits, in contrast with the American, and basically, the whole globalized world, cultural conditioning of eating anything and everything just because. I don't even know what I enjoyed the most, the book itself or the offended Americans on the reviews. In a very French way, the author compares both cultures and while we can't accept everything as a universal truth, it really doesn't say anything that we haven't heard before, which is why its message really resonated with me, because it doesn't get complicated, it's simple but to the point. Maybe it was the francophone in me, but I really enjoyed it.