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All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: After Diverse Drinking Eat Everyone First Foods Human Learned Life Milk Our Regularly Starts Tastes Up Year You

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The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Childhood Danger Eat Endless Expect Food Frequently Growing Growing Up Incapable Industrial Innately More Resisting Salty Surrounded Sweet Taste Them Train Up Us Way

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One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Act Animals Attention Best Bodily Civilized Disguise Draws Eating Fact Forks Function Like Our Props Someone Stare Them Things Trapped You

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When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Also Any Case Eating Exposed Feel Food Harbor Long-Standing Might Our Person Plate Someone Staring Steal Suspicion Taboo Us Wants Watches

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Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

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Topics: About Buzz Case Eating Feast Gold Half Honey How Leaf Lives Other Others Reading Seeing Sometimes Thrill

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Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Answer Best Characters Coffee Come Comforting Console Could Drink Exactly Food Found Frequency His John Lead Legal Often Phase Pinpoint Predictability Predictable Quite Tells Thrillers Tried Up Us Which Why Years Years Ago I Tried

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The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.

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Topics: Around Based Food Form Found Full However Humans Job Limitation May Mouth Old Only Perform Presumption Should Talk Time Way Writing Your

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Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

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Topics: About Critics Delicious Difficulty Eating Restaurant Struggle Without Word Writing

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In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Actual Aid Among Cook Cooking Current Decline Fantasies Food Home Identified Meals Michael Others Our Paradox Particularly Practice Prelude Read Recipe Then Theory Tv Writing You

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One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: About Eat Food Imaginary Life Never Pleasure Reading Real Real Life Strange Strange Things Take Things Us Want Would

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: March 7th, 1974

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