“Parents and children resemble each other no more in the foods they like than couples do, suggesting that nurture - who you eat with - is more powerful than nature in determining our food habits. Whatever our innate dispositions, our experience with food can override them.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Anything eaten just before a bout of stomach bug may be hated for life.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Likes and dislikes cannot be reduced to molecules and genes. It means that our food habits are not final and fixed but adaptable and open, if only we will give ourselves half a chance. We did not come into the world disliking bitter greens; we were taught to dislike them by our environment. Taste may be identity but it is not destiny. The hope is that while we are stuck with our genes, the environment is something that can change.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It’s a truism that we know what we like and we like what we know. If you ask young children which foods they most detest, they tend to be the ones they have never actually tasted, often vegetables.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly.”
Source: The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата
“Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends’ lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Our tastes are learned in the context of immense social influences, whether from our family, our friends, or the cheery font on a bottle of soda.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Surely we should try to save something that, when done well, is not only a supreme example of the art of cooking, but a dish that encapsulates humankind's entire culinary history?”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“There is a mystery inherent in a pie by virtue of its contents being hidden beneath its crust.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“Before there was wedding cake, there was bride pie.”
Source: Pie: A Global History