Despite having a violent antipathy to diet books, I was won over by Wilson's arguments. But what makes First Bite so readable is Wilson's candour about her own relationship with food and her valiant but not always successful attempts not to pass on her fads to her three children." The Independent, UK "Written with her customary acuity and readability, First Bite is primarily concerned with demolishing the mountain of twaddle that has accrued around our vexed relationship with food. If any book can effect long-term weight loss, it should be this one, because it feeds the mind rather than denying the body." Sunday Times, UK "If there were any justice in the world, this book should be at the top of this month's diet-book bestsellers. The well-meaning experts lecture us about what we ought to eat Wilson wants to understand why we eat what we do."- Guardian (UK), The Times, UK "Everyone will identify with something in First Bite, be it the analysis of why some of us don't like beetroot.or the distant memories of being ordered to clear your plate by an earlier generation who had grown up in terror of waste. Carefully crafted, astutely served, delicious and nourishing: First Bite is a real treat.", "Delightful. There are some very useful ideas within these pages, and none of the usual pseudoscientific bunk that plagues books about diet. First Bite should be read by every young parent, and is a good resource for adults with eating disorders and those with more prosaic problems like waistline drift. First Bite is, first and foremost, an anthropological category killer on the topic of how we learn to eat." Wall Street Journal " fascinating new book.
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he central premise of First Bite is one that we'd all be wise to see as liberating, generous and ultimately optimistic: If we learned what and how to eat as babies, we can unlearn and relearn and actually change what Wilson sees as our collectively chaotic relationships with food. Winner of the Andr Simon Food & Drink Special Commendation Prize, UK New York Times Book Review " exhaustively researched book. An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our tastes and eating habits, First Bite also shows us how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives. But Wilson also shows that both adults and children have immense potential for learning new, healthy eating habits. The way we learn to eat holds the key to why food has gone so disastrously wrong for so many people. Wilson examines why the Japanese eat so healthily, whereas the vast majority of teenage boys in Kuwait have a weight problem - and what these facts can tell Americans about how to eat better. Taking the reader on a journey across the globe, Wilson introduces us to people who can only eat foods of a certain color prisoners of war whose deepest yearning is for Mom's apple pie a nine year old anosmia sufferer who has no memory of the flavor of her mother's cooking toddlers who will eat nothing but hotdogs and grilled cheese sandwiches and researchers and doctors who have pioneered new and effective ways to persuade children to try new vegetables. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste? In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and nutritionists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love.
We learn to enjoy green vegetables - or not. From childhood onward, we learn how big a portion is and how sweet is too sweet. We are not born knowing what to eat as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves.
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