Control freak Quote by Elizabeth Bard

“No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book.” (p. 105).”

— Elizabeth Bard

“Berthillon's ice cream is dense and creamy--- served, in keeping with French rules of moderation, in golf-ball-size scoops. You have to be a real…

— Elizabeth Bard

“A French portion is half of an American portion, and a French meal takes twice as long to eat. You do the math.”

— Elizabeth Bard

“The description is a good one--- saffron's reddish-golden glow is very much my idea of sunshine in a bottle. Good saffron is sweet and…

— Elizabeth Bard

“In Paris the past is always with you: you look at it, walk over it, sit on it.”

— Elizabeth Bard

“That's the real reason why French women don't get fat: every day they make "petites" decisions that keep the larger weight loss struggle from…

— Elizabeth Bard

“Mostly I’m a thinker, a worrier … it’s not that there’s no free spirit in me. But it’s a free spirit with a five-year…

— Elizabeth Bard

“If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.”

— Elizabeth Bard

“The woman's face was like a stone tablet, as if the president of the chess club had wandered over to the Goth corner of…

— Elizabeth Bard

“People grow, but they don't change.”

— Elizabeth Bard

“They weren't tears of sadness or even tears of joy. I was just overflowing. Like so many things since I'd been here, I didn't…

— Elizabeth Bard

“A French conversation starter is more subtle. Work is considered boring, money is out of the question, politics comes later (and only in like-minded…

— Elizabeth Bard