“You never need to apologize
for how you chose to survive.
-You Have Six Tattoos”
Source: Mouthful of Forevers
“Have you noticed that when someone wants to express that something tastes extra specially wonderful, they will often invoke childhood?”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Large numbers of adults as well as children have now become habituated to eating a version of ‘kid food’ over a whole lifetime: sweet, salty, undemanding to chew and swallow and heavily processed.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Flavour has a remarkable ability to imprint itself on our memories and therefore to drive our future food choices.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“When parents as well as children are eating ‘kid food’, perhaps it’s time to call not something else. ‘Kid food’ started off as something separate and different from normal food. Now it is close to being the new normal for all age groups. The danger is that when adults have childish tastes too, it becomes very difficult for anyone to break the cycle and learn the pleasures of real food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It’s not birthday cake in itself that is the problem. It’s the surrounding culture of food, where sweet treats are ever-present, consumed without ceremony.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Healthy eating should not preclude the odd cake. But it’s good to be able to wait: if not for a while year, at least for an hour or two.”
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.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.”
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.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat