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Zusatztext "Portrays the stark contrast between French foodways- valuing communal meals! diverse foods and good taste- and Americans' round-the-clock snacking and narrow! market-driven tastes?We now have the occasional course that lets us glimpse the soul nourishment that marks the French approach to food." Informationen zum Autor Karen Bakker Le Billon is a professor at the University of British Columbia! and was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2011. A Rhodes Scholar with a Ph.D. from Oxford! she has published five academic books and Getting To Yum ! a guide and cookbook on taste training for kids. She and her family divide their time between Canada and France. Her website was named a Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Blog of the Month. Klappentext Moving her young family to her husband's hometown in northern France! Karen Le Billon is prepared for some cultural adjustment but is surprised by the food education she and her family (at first unwillingly) receive. In contrast to her daughters! French children feed themselves neatly and happily—eating everything from beets to broccoli! salad to spinach! mussels to muesli. The family's food habits soon come under scrutiny! as Karen is lectured for slipping her fussing toddler a snack—"a recipe for obesity!"—and forbidden from packing her older daughter a lunch in lieu of the elaborate school meal. The family soon begins to see the wisdom in the "food rules" that help the French foster healthy eating habits and good manners—from the rigid "no snacking" rule to commonsense food routines that we used to share but have somehow forgotten. Soon! the family cures picky eating and learns to love trying new foods. But the real challenge comes when they move back to North America—where their commitment to "eating French" is put to the test. The result is a family food revolution with surprising but happy results—which suggest we need to dramatically rethink the way we feed children! at home and at school. Zusammenfassung French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted! decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living in France. At once a memoir! a cookbook! a how-to handbook! and a delightful exploration of how the French manage to feed children without endless battles and struggles with pickiness! French Kids Eat Everything features recipes! practical tips! and ten easy-to-follow rules for raising happy and healthy young eaters—a sort of French Women Don’t Get Fat meets Food Rules . ...
