Agent: Zoë Pagnamenta, Zoë Pagnamenta Agency. She manages to get stories for this book from a lot of different regions, not just the western world, which was especially inspiring. She’s from the UK, but manages to ‘conceal’ this very well in the book. Discussing everything from adults with stringent eating patterns to gendered weight misperceptions and changes in cultural norms, Wilson delineates how diets develop and, more importantly, how to make healthy modifications. Bee Wilson is a food writer and First Bite (affiliate link) is her fifth book. Using brief tales, Wilson details many disorders across the consumption spectrum in an insightful and earnest tone that appeals to food-lovers and parents. Old reports are countered by the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and biologists. Mixing science with anecdotes, she incorporates past studies, including one landmark research study on infants’ inherent patterns of taste, explicating the sometimes-conflicting theories scholars spun from the outcome, Wilson debunks the notion that appetite is genetic and the idea that the body naturally selects what it needs. Wilson takes a scholarly approach in this smart and telling journey that outlines food habits and where they originate. We learn to enjoy green vegetables - or not. From childhood onward, we learn how big a 'portion' is and how sweet is too sweet. “Most of what we learn about food happens when we’re children-when we’re sitting at the kitchen table (if you’re lucky enough to have one), being fed,” says Wilson ( Consider the Fork), a food writer and historian. First Bite How We Learn to Eat Bee Wilson 4.0 1 Rating 11.99 Publisher Description 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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