PositiveThe New YorkerWilson...often uses the topic of food as a gateway to explore the intersecting histories of ideas, culture, technology, and society... First Bite marks something of a shift in subject matter and approach: the book contains copious archival research, illuminating, for example, the history of school-food programs and eating disorders, but it also incorporates personal anecdotes from Wilson’s life: her troubled relationship with carbohydrates as a teen, and her desperate attempts to spoon healthful foods into the mouth of her resistant toddler son.
