Never mind teaching children to cook: they need to be taught to eat. Obvious? Totally, but this is the choosing part of eating, not the chomping and swallowing we are born to do. Yet, terrific survivors that omnivores have proven to be, they do not know poison from medicine unless told so.
Rose Prince
Carrots — and no stick
Rose Prince wishes she’d benefited from Bee Wilson’s advice when trying to get her own children to eat their greens

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