“From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse. As omnivores, we have no inbuilt knowledge of which foods are good and safe. Each of us has to use our senses to figure out for ourselves what is edible, depending on what’s available. In many ways, this is a delightful opportunity. It’s the reason there are such fabulously varied ways of cooking in the world.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“We create our own pattern of eating, as distinctive as a signature.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Traditional cuisines across the world were founded on a strong sense of balance, with norms about which foods go together, and how much one should eat at different times of the day.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Don't we touch each other just to prove we're still here?”
Source: Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“Like children, many of us eat what we like and we only like what we know.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“What we forget is that, as omnivores, we are extremely gifted at changing the way we eat to accommodate different environments.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“My premise in First Bite is that the question of how we learn to eat - both individually and collectively - is the key to how food, for so many people, has gone so badly wrong. The greatest public health problem of modern times is how to persuade people to make better food choices.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Many people have absorbed the lesson from childhood that vegetables and pleasure - and more generally, healthy food and pleasure - can never go together.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The way we eat is not a question of worthiness but of routine and preference, built over a lifespan.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat