Mireille Guiliano
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Mireille Guiliano (born on April 14, 1946, in Moyeuvre-Grande
, France
) is a French-American author.
Mireille wrote French Women Don't Get Fat (2004) which reached #1 on the New York Times "Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous: Hardcover bestseller" list, followed by French Women for All Seasons. She runs a related website offering advice, recipes, and a reader forum to complement her French Women books.
Mireille's third book, Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility was published in October 2009, and her fourth, The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook, was released in April 2010.
Mireille has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show
, Today, The Early Show
, Dateline NBC
and CNN
. She has been profiled in The New York Times, USA Today, TIME, Newsweek, The Robb Report, Business Week, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine and dozens of other publications.
She frequently contributes articles on food, wine, travel, and lifestyle to a wide range of publications, including Town & Country
and The Quarterly Review of Wines. She has authored essays for Newsweek
, Bon Appétit
, and Nespresso
magazines, as well as the third chapter of Parisiennes (Flammarion 2007).
Mireille works with groups promoting business opportunities and education for women.
, Lorraine
amidst cooks, chefs, and restaurateurs. Mireille completed a year of her primary education as an exchange student in the United States (1966). She completed her secondary education in Paris
, where she studied French and English literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle
(1966–1970) and received her Master's degree. She also attended the Institut Supérieur d'Interprétariat et de Traduction where she received a certification as a translator/interpreter.
and a senior executive at LVMH
as well as CEO of Clicquot, Inc., the United States firm she helped found in 1984 and was its first employee.
Mireille Guiliano is one of the few women to rise to the top of the luxury industry and is well-known for her business success. Under her leadership, Veuve Cliquot grew its U.S. marketshare from less than 1% to 25%.
After publishing French Women Don’t Get Fat and French Women for All Seasons, Guiliano decided to retire from Cliquot, Inc. (LVMH) and follow her new passion to become a full-time writer.
with her husband, Edward, president and CEO of the New York Institute of Technology
, and makes frequent trips to their homes in Paris and Provence
for business and pleasure.
plus time-honored tricks of the local women, he helped restore her shape with a fresh understanding of food, drink, and living. The key lessons he taught her were moderation and how to eat for pleasure while maintaining a healthy diet and healthy weight.
In the fall of 2006, Mireille followed up with French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes and Pleasure. Devoted to l'art de vivre (the art of living), the book contains 100 additional recipes that feature French staples such as leek
s and chocolate. While her first book enabled readers to enjoy a healthier relationship with food, French Women for All Seasons showed readers how to enjoy a healthier relationship with life. In both, through her personal stories and illustrations, she espouses living life to the fullest by embracing quality, sensitivity, seasonality, and pleasure, while maintaining a healthy equilibrium.
In Fall 2009, Atria Books published Mireille's third book, Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire. The book is a guide for women in business, exploring issues of balancing career and personal life, risk taking, career advancement, leadership, branding, etiquette, mentoring, communication skills, and personal relationships. It draws on the insights and experiences Mireille gathered over her thirty-year career in business, including a long stop as CEO of Clicquot, Inc. (LVMH). As in her other books, Mireille leads with the message that life, even in business, should be a pursuit of pleasure.
In Spring 2010, Mireille published "The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook" (Atria), her first cookbook and the third book in the "French Women" trilogy. The cookbook includes recipes as well as stories from Mireille's life and advice for maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle. As in her earlier books, chocolate
, champagne and pleasure
are key ingredients.
Moyeuvre-Grande
Moyeuvre-Grande is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.Since 1986 Moyeuvre-Grande has been twinned with Snodland, a town of similar size, located in Kent, England.-Personalities:...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) is a French-American author.
Mireille wrote French Women Don't Get Fat (2004) which reached #1 on the New York Times "Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous: Hardcover bestseller" list, followed by French Women for All Seasons. She runs a related website offering advice, recipes, and a reader forum to complement her French Women books.
Mireille's third book, Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility was published in October 2009, and her fourth, The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook, was released in April 2010.
Mireille has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, Today, The Early Show
The Early Show
The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...
, Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC, or Dateline, is a U.S. weekly television newsmagazine broadcast by NBC. It previously was NBC's flagship news magazine, but now focuses on true crime stories. It airs Friday at 9 p.m. EST and after football season on Sunday at 7 p.m. EST.-History:Dateline is historically notable for...
and CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
. She has been profiled in The New York Times, USA Today, TIME, Newsweek, The Robb Report, Business Week, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine and dozens of other publications.
She frequently contributes articles on food, wine, travel, and lifestyle to a wide range of publications, including Town & Country
Town & Country (magazine)
Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States.-Early history:...
and The Quarterly Review of Wines. She has authored essays for Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
, Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit describes itself as "a food and entertaining magazine" and is published monthly. Named after the French phrase for "Enjoy your meal", it was started by M. Frank Jones in Kansas City in 1956...
, and Nespresso
Nespresso
Nespresso is the brand name of Nestlé Nespresso S.A., an operating unit of the Nestlé Group based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Nespresso machines brew espresso from special capsules containing ground coffee.- History :...
magazines, as well as the third chapter of Parisiennes (Flammarion 2007).
Mireille works with groups promoting business opportunities and education for women.
Education
A native of France, Mireille Guiliano grew up in RombasRombas
Rombas is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.-Geography:Rombas is located in the lower Orne Valley, near Metz, Nancy and Luxembourg.-History:...
, Lorraine
Lorraine (région)
Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...
amidst cooks, chefs, and restaurateurs. Mireille completed a year of her primary education as an exchange student in the United States (1966). She completed her secondary education in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, where she studied French and English literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle
University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle
The New Sorbonne University is a public university in Paris, France.The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle is a founding member of the Paris Universitas, a union of 6 Parisian universities....
(1966–1970) and received her Master's degree. She also attended the Institut Supérieur d'Interprétariat et de Traduction where she received a certification as a translator/interpreter.
Career
Prior to becoming a full-time author, Mireille was for over 20 years the spokesperson for Champagne Veuve ClicquotVeuve Clicquot
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin is both a champagne house in Reims, France, and a brand of premium champagne. Founded in 1772 by Philippe Clicquot-Muiron, Veuve Clicquot played an important role in establishing champagne as a favored drink of haute bourgeoisie and nobility throughout Europe...
and a senior executive at LVMH
LVMH
LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A., better known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The company was formed after the 1987 merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company formed after the 1971 merger...
as well as CEO of Clicquot, Inc., the United States firm she helped found in 1984 and was its first employee.
Mireille Guiliano is one of the few women to rise to the top of the luxury industry and is well-known for her business success. Under her leadership, Veuve Cliquot grew its U.S. marketshare from less than 1% to 25%.
After publishing French Women Don’t Get Fat and French Women for All Seasons, Guiliano decided to retire from Cliquot, Inc. (LVMH) and follow her new passion to become a full-time writer.
Personal
Mireille currently resides in ManhattanManhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
with her husband, Edward, president and CEO of the New York Institute of Technology
New York Institute of Technology
New York Institute of Technology is a private, non-sectarian, co-educational research university in New York City. NYIT has five schools and two colleges, all with a strong emphasis on technology and applied scientific research...
, and makes frequent trips to their homes in Paris and Provence
Provence
Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
for business and pleasure.
Books
Mireille Guiliano's first book, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure was a #1 bestseller in the US, as well as a best seller in many other countries. In less than six months, well over 1 million copies of the book were printed and it has been translated into 37 languages. The book was based on the lessons she learned after gaining weight as a teen. Her family physician, dubbed "Dr. Miracle" by Mireille, came to the rescue: reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomyGastronomy
Gastronomy is the art or science of food eating. Also, it can be defined as the study of food and culture, with a particular focus on gourmet cuisine...
plus time-honored tricks of the local women, he helped restore her shape with a fresh understanding of food, drink, and living. The key lessons he taught her were moderation and how to eat for pleasure while maintaining a healthy diet and healthy weight.
In the fall of 2006, Mireille followed up with French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes and Pleasure. Devoted to l'art de vivre (the art of living), the book contains 100 additional recipes that feature French staples such as leek
Leek
The leek, Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum , also sometimes known as Allium porrum, is a vegetable which belongs, along with the onion and garlic, to family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae...
s and chocolate. While her first book enabled readers to enjoy a healthier relationship with food, French Women for All Seasons showed readers how to enjoy a healthier relationship with life. In both, through her personal stories and illustrations, she espouses living life to the fullest by embracing quality, sensitivity, seasonality, and pleasure, while maintaining a healthy equilibrium.
In Fall 2009, Atria Books published Mireille's third book, Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire. The book is a guide for women in business, exploring issues of balancing career and personal life, risk taking, career advancement, leadership, branding, etiquette, mentoring, communication skills, and personal relationships. It draws on the insights and experiences Mireille gathered over her thirty-year career in business, including a long stop as CEO of Clicquot, Inc. (LVMH). As in her other books, Mireille leads with the message that life, even in business, should be a pursuit of pleasure.
In Spring 2010, Mireille published "The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook" (Atria), her first cookbook and the third book in the "French Women" trilogy. The cookbook includes recipes as well as stories from Mireille's life and advice for maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle. As in her earlier books, chocolate
Chocolate
Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...
, champagne and pleasure
Pleasure
Pleasure describes the broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking. It includes more specific mental states such as happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria...
are key ingredients.
External links
- Frenchwomendontgetfat.com - website to accompany the French Women books.
- Mireilleguiliano.com – author's website
- Whomyouknow.com