Are there problematic French foods?
There are too many fried potatoes. When I was young, people ate them maybe once per month, because cutting and frying potatoes required a lot of work. Mostly, we ate potatoes in soup. But fried, they are catastrophic. And the bread is too white in France. It is a cultural problem. Does following your diet mean having to cook? Anyone can make their own vinaigrette, their own omelet. Recipe books look complicated, but I make meals in 10 or 15 minutes, with fresh vegetables. It takes 30 seconds to make vinaigrette. I make a mayonnaise without a mixer in a few minutes. Why doesn’t rice make Asians fat? It is an enigma. They rarely have diabetes or obesity. A study by Jenny Brown-Miller, an Australian professor, showed me that rice can be fine, as long as it is eaten with vegetables. What other culinary ideas interest you? I hold out a lot of hope for genetically modified foods. I am not afraid of a potato with the sugar level of a lentil. We have to be nuanced and we can’t refuse science s
