Whenever the subject comes up, I obnoxiously like to say that I don’t believe in dieting. After reading an article published this week, I will need to revise my pronouncement to something like this: I don’t believe in diets. I believe in eating well.

A friend of mine writes in The New York Sun about a new book by Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure.

I haven’t yet read the book, but the story about it was a sort of a that’s-what-I-meant experience. An excerpt:

“Ms. Guiliano offers a wealth of gastronomic wisdom not only to defeat nos petits demons but to reawaken an individual, multi-sensory relationship to food as pleasure …

Ms. Guiliano is confident that through slowly ‘recasting’ and making minor adjustments American women can learn to think about what is good to eat instead of what we ‘can’t’ have …

French Women is not a book for anyone looking for a radical transformation, or a January 1 starting gun. The book’s true strength is to remind the dieting public that there are no quick fixes and that eating truly should be a source of real pleasure.”

Vinnee Tong