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    First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
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    First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

    Written by Bee Wilson

    Narrated by Karen Cass

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    Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the Year 2016

    We are not born knowing what to eat. We all have to learn it as children sitting expectantly at a table. For our diets to change, we need to relearn the food experiences that first shaped us.

    Everyone starts drinking milk. After that it’s all up for grabs.

    We are not born knowing what to eat; we each have to figure it out for ourselves. From childhood onwards, we learn how big a portion is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to love broccoli – or not. But how does this happen? What are the origins of taste? And once we acquire our food habits, can we ever change them for the better?

    In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists and nutritionists to reveal how our food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. She looks at the effects siblings can have on eating choices and the social pressures to eat according to sex. Bee introduces us to people who can only eat food of a certain colour; toddlers who will eat nothing but hot dogs; doctors who have found radical new ways to help children eat vegetables. First Bite also looks at how people eat in different parts of the world: we see how grandparents in China overfeed their grandchildren, and how Japan came to adopt such a healthy diet (it wasn’t always so).

    The way we learn to eat holds the key to why food has gone so disastrously wrong for so many people. But Bee Wilson also shows that both adults and children have immense potential for learning new, healthy eating habits. An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our taste and eating habits, First Bite explains how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateDec 31, 2015
    ISBN9780008121389
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    First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
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    Bee Wilson

    Bee Wilson is a home cook, journalist and writer, mostly about food. Yotam Ottolenghi has called her 'the ultimate food scholar'. She writes for a wide range of publications including  the Guardian, The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of six books on food-related subjects and she is the co-founder of the food education charity TastEd. She lives in Cambridge and has three children.

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    • 4/5
      Thoughtful discussion on why we eat the things we do. Most of it comes down to societal influences. Prescriptive non-prescriptive in the epilogue is helpful.
    • 3/5
      This had a lot of interesting science and history behind how we eat, but unfortunately it was spoiled by a recurring moral undertone. Despite the final "this is not advice" list which says food isn't a moral issue (and which also has such gems as "No one is too busy to cook") it keeps popping up--particular foods are praised or scorned, referred to as "real" foods, and so on. While Wilson may not view food itself as moral, the questions of healthfulness and obesity in particular are viewed through a good/bad lens. It's not simply content to be an impartial view of how we learn to eat, but Wilson sees it as a lens for change.
    • 5/5
      Enlightening as to how I learned to eat. It articulated some of what I had guessed for awhile, but expanded on so much more. It is encouraging to know I can break out of my food ruts.