Picky eaters are born, not bred
January 25, 2020 by DarcieJ J Goode has co-written several books in the EYB Library, including Pok Pok: Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes, and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand (with Andy Ricker) and A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden (with April Bloomfield). Since he was a consummate food lover, Goode had visions of raising children who shared his broad palate. His kids, however, had other ideas.
Goode thought he was being realistic with his expectations. “I wasn’t one of those monsters who assumed that his 3-year-old would clamor for slow-roasted salmon,” he says. “But I was sure I would avoid becoming a peanut-butter-and-jelly parent.” Given enough exposure to quality food, Goode surmised, his kids would develop into adventurous eaters. It did not work out that way.
Anyone who has raised a fussy eater will commiserate with Goode as he recounts his adventures cooking for his two young children. Despite cooking and pureeing his own baby food and using all of the tricks he gleaned at the elbows of some of world’s top chefs, Goode confesses that “for the most part, all my efforts had created the same finicky, food-flinging, gummy-bear-addicted heathen raised by my unenlightened friends.”
Even though the reality of cooking for his kids did not comport with his imagination, Goode has found a strategy that works for his family. Perhaps as they get older, they will learn to love food the way that he does. In the meantime,
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