![]() So, across 360 pages, the author took me through the basics of food and the sensitivity of humans towards it, and mapped out how our genetic coding, exposure to types of food from childhood, memory, availability, changes, feelings play a crucial role in the choices of our food intake day in and day out. Cause, as I started to read, I realized that this book is not about exposing the horrors of too much food intake and turning the reader into a food snob in a snap but about a step by step approach on what food is all about and how we are born with the ability to choose and make healthy choices, if exposed to food sensibly. However, three weeks later, nothing as such had happened. Cause such was the impact on my ego, by the time I had read the blurb and the reviews and had paid the bill for this book. Well, by the time I had picked this book and started driving towards my home, I was flapping with vivid images of me going absolutely choosy on carbs and my sugar intake taking a steep fall from one thousand and one to minus five and my waist line toned almost to the extent of resembling Adriana Lima’s and also writing so many articles on clean eating and the tough fight that could be given against food craving. "Absorbing Review: First Bite, how we learn to eat by Bee Wilson Her tone is down-to-earth and research-based at once, gentle, encouraging, no-nonsense."- Boston Globe "Wilson lays out her discoveries in a series of easily digestible chapters that balance science and anecdote with short interludes on various foods. Her tone is refreshingly loose and friendly she's one of the few scholars I can think of who can effectively quote both Margaret Mead and Homer Simpson."- Washington Post "Wilson sprinkles just enough personal narrative through First Bite to establish her as a sympathetic figure without turning the book into a memoir. The well-meaning experts lecture us about what we ought to eat Wilson wants to understand why we eat what we do."- Guardian (UK) ![]() Wilson is intelligent, passionate, sincere, tirelessly curious and endlessly willing to admit mistakes and learn from experience."- London Review of Books "A brilliant, heartfelt book about crisis in our contemporary diet. message is a hopeful, even liberating, one."- Washington Post ![]() "An anthropological category killer on the topic of how we learn to eat."- New York Times Book Review " First Bite is a feast of a book."- Financial Times An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our tastes and eating habits, First Bite also shows us how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives. But Wilson also shows that both adults and children have immense potential for learning new, healthy eating habits. The way we learn to eat holds the key to why food has gone so disastrously wrong for so many people. Wilson examines why the Japanese eat so healthily, whereas the vast majority of teenage boys in Kuwait have a weight problem - and what these facts can tell Americans about how to eat better. Taking the reader on a journey across the globe, Wilson introduces us to people who can only eat foods of a certain color prisoners of war whose deepest yearning is for Mom's apple pie a nine year old anosmia sufferer who has no memory of the flavor of her mother's cooking toddlers who will eat nothing but hotdogs and grilled cheese sandwiches and researchers and doctors who have pioneered new and effective ways to persuade children to try new vegetables. ![]() In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and nutritionists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste? We learn to enjoy green vegetables - or not. From childhood onward, we learn how big a "portion" is and how sweet is too sweet. We are not born knowing what to eat as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. ![]()
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