My love affair began at a gift shop just off a rainy highway outside Brussels. It was the mid-1990s. I was with three friends, on my way from Paris to Amsterdam by car, and had just enough francs in ...

Talking about, thinking about and hearing about 'dieting' makes me a little grumpy. I've put in my time feeling the burn with Jane Fonda in the 1980s; eating low-fat foods in the 1990s; and, eating ...