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“At a certain point as a child, we notice that the food at home is not the same as the dinners our friends eat.”

Home Childhood Food

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Part of the magic of childhood for most of us, looking back, was the sensation of freedom in your own body - the feeling that these legs were made for skipping.”

Magic Childhood Food Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“If you can cancel a child’s hunger during those first three years - from conception to toddlerdom -you create possibilities that stretch decades into the future. If not, the consequences can last for generations.”

Childhood Food Hunger Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“From childhood onwards, our idea of fullness is heavily influenced by how much food we are offered.”

Childhood Food Hunger Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Many parents, especially those who themselves struggle with their weight, believe that a child is incapable of self-control when it comes to eating.”

Childhood Food Eating Parents

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Our childhood experiences with food can trap us in destructive patterns for the rest of our lives.”

Childhood Food Memory Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Like so many of the things parents do out of loving solicitude, putting pressure on girls to lose weight has no good outcomes and a lot of bad ones.”

Childhood Food Parents Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“What you taste as a child is still there in your adult brain, even if you haven’t thought of it for years.”

Childhood Food Eating Memory Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The childhood foods that we ache for are very specific to the place and the time where we grew up.”

Childhood Food Memory

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Childhood food memories, like family jokes, are often untranslatable to outsiders.”

Childhood Food Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The importance of shared childhood food memories for bonding families together can be seen among expats who carry their ‘homeland’ with them in the form of ingredients smuggled in suitcases.”

Childhood Food Memory

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Though it was composed of shortening, corn syrup, colourings and other unwholesome ingredients, with a shelf-life so long it became the punchline of many jokes, for many the Twinkie was the taste of childhood. It was Proust’s madeleine for the junk-food generation.”

Childhood Food Memory

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The existence of birthday cake ice cream suggests that we can no longer distinguish celebration foods from everyday ones. We are also not too sure whether we are children or adults.”

Childhood Food Birthday Ice Cream Birthday Cake

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“What makes junk food so dangerous is not that it is unhealthy - though it is. It’s that it is entwined in our minds with so many other memories that are good and true and pure. memory has always been an important part of how we learn to eat, but never before have so many of us been stamped with reinforcing food memories that mostly come not from a cuisine but from a series of cartons and packets. When we hear someone suggesting that we stop eating our favourite brand of ice cream or potato crisps or sliced white bread, we feel a knee-jerk hostility. It’s hard to let go of these foods and find a better way of eating without a sense of loss. The thing you are losing is your own childhood.”

Childhood Food Eating Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“In most places, for most of history, children’s food has not existed as a separate category after the age of weaning.”

Children Childhood Food Food Writing Kids Food

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The main reason to be suspicious of fruit as a food for children was that it was just so delicious.”

Childhood Food Eating Fruit

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“We know that letting our children eat too many sweets makes us a bad parent, hence the pointless ritual at Halloween when parents allow their children to go from house to house accumulating a big haul of treats, only to confiscate them at the end of the night, because they don’t want their child to get cavities. Yes despite their anxiety about sweets, parents will happily feed their children highly sweetened sports bars, fruit snacks and cereals which are sweets in all but name.”

Children Childhood Food Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“While the form of ‘kid food’ is more varied than ever, however, the content is far less so. Foods marketed specifically at children tend to be higher than average in salt, sugar and fat.”

Children Childhood Food

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“How can wholesome nursery food compete with hundreds of new and heavily advertised concoctions, calculated to appeal to a child’s sense of novelty?”

Children Childhood Food Nursery Food

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Have you noticed that when someone wants to express that something tastes extra specially wonderful, they will often invoke childhood?”

Children Childhood Food

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“To give a child the things they love to eat bestows a heroic glow. Seeing a child fed reassures you that you have done your duty as a parent, like a mother bird ferrying worms to the nest.”

Childhood Food Eating

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.”

Childhood Food Eating Parents Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Almost every parent wants the best for their child, but they are frequently too hung up on the indignities of the past to see the real problems in front of them or to separate a child’s needs from their own urges.”

Kids Childhood Food Eating Parents Feeding

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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First Bite: How We Learn to EatRelated source material

The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of ChangeRelated source material

The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the KitchenRelated source material