4/1/2023 0 Comments First bite bee wilson![]() Her narrative kept me hungry for more until the very end.' Yotam Ottolenghi First Bite is a brilliant study of how we form our food preferences and how we may be able to change them. `Bee Wilson is the ultimate food scholar. And it might change your life.` Charlotte Mendelson It is a weirdly addictive, intelligent and enjoyable explanation of why we eat as we do: more unputdownable than any non fiction has a right to be. `When you open First Bite and see science, don't panic. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007549702 Number of pages: 432 Weight: 460 g Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 32 mm MEDIA REVIEWS ![]() 'An intelligent and provocative book with new things to say about a huge subject' - The Times ![]() An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our taste and eating habits, First Bite explains how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives. But Bee 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. First Bite also looks at how people eat in different parts of the world: we see how grandparents in China overfeed their grandchildren, and how Japan came to adopt such a healthy diet (it wasn't always so). Bee introduces us to people who can only eat food of a certain colour toddlers who will eat nothing but hot dogs doctors who have found radical new ways to help children eat vegetables. She looks at the effects siblings can have on eating choices and the social pressures to eat according to sex. But how does this happen? What are the origins of taste? And once we acquire our food habits, can we ever change them for the better? In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists and nutritionists to reveal how our food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. From childhood onwards, we learn how big a portion is and how sweet is too sweet. We are not born knowing what to eat we each have to figure it out for ourselves. For our diets to change, we need to relearn the food experiences that first shaped us. We all have to learn it as children sitting expectantly at a table. (Dec.We are not born knowing what to eat. Agent: Zoë Pagnamenta, Zoë Pagnamenta Agency. 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. 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. “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.
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