title: Meet Paris Oyster: A Love Affair with the Perfect Food
author:  Mireille Guiliano 
description: Mireille Guiliano, a former chief executive at LVMH (Veuve Clicquot), is "the high priestess of French lady wisdom" (<i>USA Today</i>) and "ambassador of France and its art of living" (<em>Le Figaro</em>). She is the author of <i>French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure,</i> the number 1 <i>The New York Times Bestseller </i>in the US. It has been translated into 37 languages. Mireille has appeared on <i>The Today Show</i>, CBS' <i>The Early Show</i>, NBC's <i>Dateline</i>, <i>Oprah</i>, CNN, among many national broadcasts, and has been profiled in <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>USA Today</i>, <i>Time</i>, <i>Newsweek</i>, <i>People</i>, <i>Business Week</i>, <i>More</i>, <i>Travel &amp; Leisure</i>, <i>Food &amp; Wine</i> and dozens of other publications, and she is the author of <em>French Women for All Seasons</em>, <em>Women, Work &amp; The Art of Savoir Faire</em>, and <em>The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook</em>.<br />
zlib_text: A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  Born and raised in France, Mireille Guiliano first lived in the United States
  as an exchange student and came back for good early in her professional
  career. She is president and CEO of Clicquot, Inc., whose headquarters are in
  New York, and a director of Champagne Veuve Clicquot in Reims. Married to an
  American, Mireille lives most of the year in New York and makes frequent trips
  to Paris as well as across America. Among her favorite pastimes are breakfast,
  lunch, and dinner.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _VIVE L’AMÉRIQUE:_**  
  
  
  **THE BEGINNING …** **I AM OVERWEIGHT**
  
  
  I love my adopted homeland. But first, as an exchange student in
  Massachusetts, I learned to love chocolate-chip cookies and brownies. And I
  gained twenty pounds.
  
  
  My love affair with America had begun with my love of the English language; we
  met at the _lycée_ (junior high and high school) when I turned eleven. English
  was my favorite class after Fre