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Authors: Bee Wilson

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42
   
“desire is lost”:
Wise 2006.

42
   
students and their mothers:
Unusan 2006.

43
   
even in the first week:
Steiner 1979.

44
   
amniotic fluid tasted:
Schaal et al. 2000.

44
   
smelled garlicky:
Mennella et al. 1995.

44
   
exaggerated taste for sweetness:
Gen-Hua Zhang et al. 2011.

44
   
diet during lactation:
Gugusheff et al. 2013.

44
   
preferences for certain foods:
Mennella and Beauchamp 1991, 1993; Mennella et al. 1995, 2005.

45
   
Beauchamp puts it:
“Bad Eating Habits Start in the Womb,”
New York Times
, December 1, 2013.

45
   
early stages of eating:
Dr. Lucy Cooke, “Understanding Young Children’s Food Preferences,” paper presented at Nutrition and Health Live conference, London, 2013.

45
   
different hydrolysate formulas:
Beauchamp and Mennella 2011.

46
   
essence in each bottle:
Salen 1940.

46
   
baby rejects the bottle:
“Vanilla Natural Flavoring in Babies Bottles,” Baby Centre,
http://community.babycentre.co.uk/post/a23870045/vanilla_natural_flavoring_in_babies_bottles
, accessed June 2015.

46
   
city of Wenzhou:
Yan Shen et al. 2014.

47
   “like candy”: Susan Donaldson James, “Chocolate Toddler ‘Formula’ Pulled After Sugar Uproar,” June 10, 2010, ABC News,
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diabetes/mead-johnson-drops-chocolate-flavored-emfagrow-parent-uproar/story?id=10876301
, accessed November 2014.

47
   
postwar years:
Haller et al. 1999.

47
   
trying to appeal to:
Lobstein 1988.

48
   
another person’s sweat:
Lee and Sobel 2010.

48
   “designed not to forget”: Levin Pelchat and Blank 2001.

49
   
“higher concentration”:
Malnic et al. 1999.

50
   
brain’s unique flavor system:
Shepherd 2012.

50
   
“resemble any other”:
Ibid.

52
   
“slice of the moon”:
Shephard 2001.

53
   
“childhood gatherings”:
Thompson 2001.

55
   
“chocolate more delicious”:
Prescott 2012.

55
   
“burning of the lips”:
Sutton 2001.

56
   
“‘white gold’ to me”:
Ibid.

56
   
“around forever”:
Carafoli 2001.

56
   
“stuffed cabbage”:
Mendelson 2013.

58
   
“administer the anaesthetic”:
Blumenthal 2009.

58
   
everyone could detect it:
Blake 2001; Dalton et al. 259.

59
   
“summers of my youth”:
Patterson 2013.

59
   
“re-create a Twinkie”:
Patterson, conversation with author, February 2014.

60
   
“home from school”:
Sutton 2001.

62
   
“doesn’t even taste good”:
Bittman 2013.

64
   
“never quenched”:
Dutton 1906.

64
   
and rising: Global Ice Cream
, October 2014, MarketLine Industry Profile.

Chapter 3: Children’s Food

66
   
“food we disliked”:
Quoted in Clifton and Spencer 1993.

66
   
pudding’s role as food for children:
Hecht 1912, 1913.

67
   
“letter box”:
McMillan and Sanderson 1909.

67
   
beef and lentils:
Stevens Bryant 1913.

67
   
Manchester grammar school’s dessert menu:
Hecht 1912.

69
   
never ate it:
Ibid., 89.

69
   
“stupid feeding”:
McMillan and Sanderson 1909.

70
   
“must not suffer”:
Crowley 1909.

70
   
“better than any other”:
Hecht 1913.

71
   
“would recoil”:
Rowley Leigh, “Recipe: Rice Pudding,”
Financial Times
, December 6, 2013,
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fceef972-5c6b-11e3-931e-00144feabdc0.html#slide0
.

71
   
“thankful for it”: Evening News,
May 14, 1912.

73
   
“ ‘ill taste’”:
Culpeper 1662.

73
   
make them stubborn:
Visser 1991, 46.

74
   
“held on the knees”:
Washington 2008.

74
   
“protein starvation”:
Crowley 1909.

74
   
lunchtime pennies:
Stevens Bryant 1913.

75
   
0.6 grams of protein:
Ibid.

75
   
“pound a week”:
Pember Reeves 1994.

75
   
“remains of adult food”:
Ibid.

76
   
“two meals in the day”:
Ibid.

76
   
stale tea:
Hecht 1913, 310.

76
   
particularly fruit:
Pooley 2009, 2010.

77
   
sweet grapes, and melons:
Albala 2002.

78
   
tiny stomachs:
Hardyment 1995.

78
   
“adult people”:
Dutton 1906, 15.

78
   
“children are brought up”:
Ibid., 17.

79
   
could save lives:
Ibid., 23.

79
   
cookbook of 1874:
Clark 1874.

79
   
published in 1894:
Holt 1923.

80
   
child was eleven:
Ibid.

81
   
“through a cullender”:
Rundell 1827.

81
   
“opening” in its effects:
Pooley 2009, 2010.

81
   
account of the orange peel:
Pritchard 1909.

82
   
dry rusks:
Hecht 1912, 304–305.

82
   
“plain vegetables”:
David 282.

82
   
“evil-smelling”:
Clifton and Spencer 1993.

84
   
“homemade custard or milk pudding”:
Quoted in Hardyment 1995, 264.

84
   
chain restaurants in 2001:
Boorstin 2001.

85
   
“gummy worm”:
Ibid.

85
   
version of French fries:
Groves 2002.

86
   
“perhaps even deadly”:
Kawash 2013.

86
   
teddy bears or ghosts:
Cathro and Hilliam 1994.

87
   
health message:
Castonguay et al. 2013.

87
   
“amusing a child with food”:
Groves 2002, 119.

87
   
twistable, stringable, or dunkable:
Elliott 2008.

87
   
cheese sauce in the pack:
Hilliam 1996.

87
   
“for them”:
Urbick 2000, 65.

88
   
sachet of ketchup:
Wilson 2002.

88
   
wish was for “control”:
Urbick 2011, 219.

88
   
“adding milk gives the child control”:
Ibid.

88
   
choose their own yogurts:
Urbick 2000, 11.

88
   
previous day:
Lobstein 1988, 40.

89
   
egg yolk stirred in:
Ibid., 48.

89
   
“‘serve what their children eat’”:
Williams 2011, 135.

89
   
US kids’ menus:
Jennings 2009.

89
   rejected unfamiliar dishes: Associated Press, “Some Schools Drop Out of New Healthy Federal Lunch Program, Citing Small Portions and Foods Kids Won’t Eat,”
New York Daily News
, August 28, 2013,
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/schools-drop-new-healthy-federal-lunch-program-article-1.1439576
, accessed June 2015.

90
   
“contraband nature”:
Zoe Williams, “Anti-natal,”
The Guardian
, January 30, 2009,
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/30/family1
, accessed March 2015.

91
   
change their food habits:
See Wansink 2002.

91
   
“not good for them”:
Mead 1943.

92
   
drawing room with the grown-ups:
David 2000.

93
   
“retained in most countries”:
Popkin 2006.

94
   
sixty-nine children and seventy mothers:
Skinner et al. 2002.

95
   
secret tomb:
Humble 2010.

Chapter 4: Feeding

99
   
some organic cause:
Cole and Lanham 2011.

99
   
wrong in the child’s care:
Block and Krebs 2005.

99
   
abuse in their own past:
Weston and Colloton 1993.

104
   
to and from school:
Goh 2009.

105
   
districts of Beijing:
Jiang Jingxiong et al. 2007.

105
   
“feeding her so much”:
Ibid.

106
   
“those still growing”:
Hecht 1912, 33–34.

106
   
low in the spring:
Prentice 2001.

106
   
chubby ones:
Ibid.; Hales and Barker 2001.

106
   
“if the child is fat”:
Jiang Jingxiong et al. 2007.

106
   
ripe for pinching:
Baldeesh Rai, “Asian Diets and Cardiovascular Disease,” paper presented at Nutrition and Health Live conference, London, 2013.

107
   
44.2 percent in the United States:
Ng et al. 2014.

107
   
“quite an achievement”:
French and Crabbe 2010.

108
   
“wouldn’t recognize as food”:
Pollan 2008.

108
   
behavior merited treats:
Jiang Jingxiong et al. 2007.

109
   
“feelings of disgust”:
Beecher 1986.

110
   
“placed in life”:
Ibid.

111
   
maize called
eko: Bentley et al. 2011.

112
   
“traditional feeding practices”:
Birch 1998, 1999; Birch and Anzman 2010.

112
   
“forced consumption”:
Batsell et al. 2002.

113
   
“forced to eat”:
Holt 1923.

113
   
“child’s progress” in eating:
Hubble and Blake 1944, 447.

114
   
“cold steel”:
Clifton and Spencer 1993.

115
   
forced to eat food:
Batsell et al. 2002.

115
   
get their children to eat:
Carnell et al. 2011.

116
   
sometimes they were not:
Galloway et al. 2006.

116
   
“It’s so annoying”:
Ibid.

118
   
weigh more as adults:
Discussed in Vollmer and Mobley 2013.

118
   
predictor of obesity:
Ibid.

119
   
parental BMI:
Tovar et al. 2012.

119
   
higher weight in children:
Vollmer and Mobley 2013.

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