Chefs are cooking blind, for strangers whose memories are unknown.

Unlike traditional food, which is remembered jointly within families or communities, mass-produced food and drink is remembered across continents.

Candy bar nostalgia puts us all on the same page.

Modern meals marketed at children send the message that if you are a kid, you cannot be expected to find enjoyment in anything so boring as real, whole food.

The sense that children need their own special foods that are uniquely appealing and altogether different from a mainstream human diet - like pet food - starts early, with commercial baby food.

In India, children’s food is just food.

There are three big things we would all benefit from learning to do: to follow structured mealtimes; to respond to our own internal cues for hunger and fullness rather than relying on external cues such as portion size; and to make ourselves open to trying a variety of foods.

Having a healthy relationship with food can act like a life jacket, protecting you from the worst excesses of obesogenic world we now inhabit. You see the greasy meatball sandwich and you no longer think it has much to say to you. This is not about being thin. It’s about reaching a state where food is something that nourishes and makes you happy rather than sickening or tormenting us. It’s about feeding ourselves as a good parent would: with love, with variety, but also with limits.

Taste is identity.