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5 French principles for eating that Americans would do well to borrow

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5 French principles for eating that Americans would do well to borrow

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Think about the last time you ate lunch without also doing something else. Not at your desk, not in the car, not scrolling. Just sitting with food and letting it be the thing. For a lot of Americans, it’s hard to remember. For the French, it’s just lunch. Jane Leverich, a registered dietitian, first visited France in her early twenties and felt something she couldn’t name yet. The way people ate there felt different: unhurried, free of the low-level guilt tha

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