“I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.”

“French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.”

“French women don't eat Wonder Bread.”

“Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.”

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

“French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.”

“Ever since that day in Chicago, whenever I see such scenes, I think of a quote by Billat-Savarin, the eighteenth-century 'modern' gastronome, well known for his writings and meditations on the physiology of taste and for his famous dictum 'We are what we eat.' But he also wrote even more revealingly: 'The destiny of a nation depends on how it feeds itself.”