Eating like the French--an Attitude as Well as a Cuisine

You know you are going to like this book when the author states in the ouverture: " My philosophy isn't about 'dieting' in the conventional sense, but more about eating sensibly and pleasurable." and this--"How are you at dealing with ambiguity? Do you ever have cereal for dinner? A snack?...What's a main course versus a side dish? Can sides be lunch or a side dish a main course?" Mais oui, we say!
Inside Mireille Guiliano's  The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook you will find recipes, of course--and tantalizing and practical recipes they are--but you will also read about a different way of looking at food. This is a companion book of sorts to the author's French Women Don't Get Fat, a non-diet book on how to enjoy food and stay slim (and non, it is not le smoking!) For many people, food and eating have become something to be tamed or managed. Rather than taking the What must I do without approach to eating, perhaps try the How can I prepare my favorite nutritional food so that I am content to enjoy it reasonable portions? As the book reminds us, the most pleasure of eating something we love comes with the first 3 or 4 bites. There is no need to gorge ourselves or feel deprived and grouchy because we are missing out on the foods we love. Remember portion proportion. In this day of repulsive shows that feature people stuffing the biggest pizza or most enormous burger into their mouths as entertainment, it is great to take a step back and take a look at how we can eat (what we love) to live and not live to eat. After all, there are consequences, n'est -ce pas?

Recipes include--Vegetable Curry, Salmon with Endives and Oranges en Papillote, Pumpkin and Apple Soup, Red Berry Smoothies, Yogurt and Oatmeal Cake, and Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal, and so on. But you will enjoy reading it even of you don't think you like to cook. You may even change your mind.

Published by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster

Take-Out from Versailles

     If you are in New York City, and are looking for something different and beautiful the next time you have to order breakfast, lunch, dinner or party food for yourself, for two or a room full of guests, you might try VersaillesDelivery.com , a one online stop for all your French refined food needs.

    Versailles is a recently launched refined delivery service and caterer bringing the best of French Food to New Yorkers and they just became the exclusive retailer of Fauchon in New York City and offer a tantalizing  selection of French favorites from Lenôtre Pastries, Petrossian Caviar, French renowned  bubbly along with delicate teas, tempting chocolates and more fine delicatessen from Fauchon. All the best of french food in one easy online stop.

  The gourmet boxes from Versailles Delivery provide the best of French food here in the U.S. and  arrive covered with a golden "cloche." And if you are not in or even near NYC, you can still partake of many of the delicious and exquisite foods.  Many of the gift boxes can be shipped anywhere in the US, including the brand new Love Boxes for Valentines Day- which you can find here. All the Fauchon, Petrossian and Artisan cheese items can be shipped as well. For obvious freshness reasons the daily lunches, dinners and gourmet boxes are only available in NYC through free delivery.

        Definitely an idea you should consider for an elegant change.  www.versaillesdelivery.com

                                

 

Food for Hope

While this is indirectly related to food, it is directly related to humanity. Culinary Tour de France is a restaurant group that offers the celebrated cuisines of France in Manhattan. The group donated $30,000 to City Harvest in conjunction with the One Mouth Can Make a Difference Campaign. Throughout last month in April, diners were able to add $1 to their check at Cafe d’Alsace, French Roast Downtown, French Roast Uptown, L’Express, Le Monde, Maison, Marseille, Nice Matin, and Pigalle for City Harvest, New York City’s only food rescue program. Tour de France also donated $1 from each prix fixe menu item ordered at the restaurants. The Tour de France Restaurant Group and their patrons should be recognized for helping City Harvest feed the growing number of New Yorkers now seeking emergency food. As it says on their website:

"...City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women and children. This year, City Harvest will collect 23 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to more than 600 community food programs throughout New York City using a fleet of trucks and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal."

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