10 French eating habits you will probably find peculiar

Living in Paris means I get a lot of questions. Where’s the best place to eat on the cheap? What are the city’s real “must-sees”? I also get a lot of culture-related queries, too. Among them, this one: “Why are French women so skinny?” First of all, I can confirm that this isn’t just some ill-founded collective belief: a majority of French people are thin — especially women living in urban areas. Not all of them are sticks, of course, but few 100% French women wear over a US size 8–10.