First Bite; How We Learn to Eat
New York: Basic Books, 2015. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxxii, 319, [1] pages. Some small illustrations. Include Preface, Introduction, Epilogue (This Is Not Advice), Acknowledgments, Notes, Further Reading, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover Likes and Dislikes; Memory; Children's Food; Feeding; Brothers and Sisters; Hunger; Disorder; and Change. This is a fascinating, at times provocative, investigation into how and why we eat what we do, how food can be both medicine and poison, and a call-to-arms manifesto to make eating guiltlessly pleasurable for all. This book is a brilliant study of how we form our food preferences and how we may be able to change them. Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson (born 7 March 1974) is a British food writer, journalist and the author of seven books on food-related subjects as well as a campaigner for food education through the charity TastEd. She writes the 'Table Talk' column for the Wall Street Journal. Wilson's book First Bite: How We Learn to Eat was a change of direction. It was the first of Wilson's books to address the practical psychology of eating rather than the history of food. Its main thesis is that human food habits are learned, from childhood onwards, and that they can also be relearned or unlearned at any age. 'The wonderful secret of being an omnivore is that we can adjust our desires, even late in the game'. First Bite won the Special Commendation Award at the Andre Simon Food and Drink Awards and Food Book of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards. That book was described in the Financial Times as being "about the pleasure of eating and how we can reconnect with this" More