First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
Bee Wilson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie.”
“The danger of growing up surrounded by these endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them, but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.”
“No one is doomed by genes to eat badly. Pickiness is governed more by environment than biology.”
“Every man carries within him a world, which is composed of all that he has seen and loved,”
“Your first job when eating is to nourish yourself.”
“Eating well is a skill. We learn it. Or not. It’s something we can work on at any age. Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.”
“A few decades from now, the current laissez-faire attitudes to sugar - now present in 80 per cent of supermarket foods - may seems as reckless and strange as permitting cars without seatbelts or smoking on aeroplanes.”
“Why is a bowl of frosted cereal loops with added rainbow marshmallows allowed to count as ‘breakfast’ and not ‘sweets’?”
“When eating becomes a matter of life or death, and each new bite is a celebration, you may discover that none of the other stuff was quite as important as sitting and breaking bread together.”
“The rise of vast portions - particularly in fast-food restaurants - means that if we eat only the calories we need, we should often stop at half of something; or even a quarter. And no one - child or adult - seems to like the feeling of the glass- - or plate - half empty.”
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Book Keywords:
food, food-writing, breakfast, cereal, eating, portions
