203 Quotes About Food-writing

Neuroscience confirms that chocolate means more to some people than others.

Love and travel are both powerful spurs to change.

Eating is - or should be - a daily source of delight rather than something to fight against.

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what’s good for us.

From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse. As omnivores, we have no inbuilt knowledge of which foods are good and safe. Each of us has to use our senses to figure out for ourselves what is edible, depending on what’s available. In many ways, this is a delightful opportunity. It’s the reason there are such fabulously varied ways of cooking in the world.

Traditional cuisines across the world were founded on a strong sense of balance, with norms about which foods go together, and how much one should eat at different times of the day.

Like children, many of us eat what we like and we only like what we know.

What we forget is that, as omnivores, we are extremely gifted at changing the way we eat to accommodate different environments.

My premise in First Bite is that the question of how we learn to eat - both individually and collectively - is the key to how food, for so many people, has gone so badly wrong. The greatest public health problem of modern times is how to persuade people to make better food choices.