Learning How to Eat
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Learning How to Eat
But if you eat enough “kid food” meals as a child, the presumption of limited tastes may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
The act of cooking imposed a kind of dignity on hunger, which had become terrifying. I couldn’t remember how I had managed hunger, the animal wildness of it, before. At home we gobbled, we were a family who ate. You could sit in front of the television and shove handfuls of crisps into your mouth, you could smother ripped-up pieces of bread with
... See moreWhat impressed me most was how hard she worked, how devoted she was to the “rules” of la cuisine française while keeping herself open to creative exploration, and how determined she was to persevere in the face of setbacks. Julia never lost her sense of wonder and inquisitiveness. She was, and is, a great inspiration.