“Eating is about food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“What all of us need is to find a way to eat regular meals, to take pleasure in a variety of foods, and to be able to eat them without being consumed by negative emotions.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“As society, we haven’t quite figured out what a new structure for meals would look like that isn’t just a hasty sandwich in the car on the way to something more important.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“In Japan, food filters into every aspect of the culture.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Almost the only places in the world that have lower obesity averages than Japan are countries such as Ethiopia or North Korea where there is widespread hunger and food itself is scarce.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“With our own personal diets, we often convince ourselves that there is something vital within us that prevents us from ever eating differently.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“There is a deep resistance to the idea of dietary change, at both a cultural and an individual level. And yet, you accept the premise that eating is a learned behaviour, it follows that changing eating habits must be - if not likely and certainly not easy - at least possible.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Umami is the savoury meatiness in seaweed and miso and soy sauce. It is, to a large extent, the concept that enables Japanese cuisine to be healthy and attractive at the same time.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat