
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

After 60 years of anxious, expert-driven over-control of family meal-times, we’ve finally learnt that parents need to relax about food intake. The little saying, ‘Parent provides, child decides’
Pamela Douglas • The Discontented Little Baby Book
There is an interesting theory about hunger—and we were finding it to be true—which goes something like this: After a certain amount of any one food, you become sated. But with a change of flavor and a change of texture, your appetite revives in the most magical fashion.
Peter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
A little practical thought quickly points out that nothing disguises the taste of bad meat, that spices were considerably more expensive than a new fresh piece of meat, and that rotten meat makes you sick regardless of its taste. If received wisdom was wrong and food was not highly spiced for disguising taste, was it highly spiced at all? Such thou
... See moreRuth Goodman • How to Be a Tudor
the icing on the cake at his first birthday. I have only the testimony of Isaac’s face to go by (that, and his fierceness to repeat the experience), but it was plain that his first encounter with sugar had intoxicated him—was in fact an ecstasy, in the literal sense of that word. That is, he was beside himself with the pleasure of it, no longer her
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