The modern parent seems to find nothing as fraught as feeding their children. Pickiness is rampant. It looks like an inbuilt biological mechanism designed to cause parents maximum stress, to somehow prove that they really do love and cherish their offspring by fulfilling its every desire.

Nothing could be further from the truth, as revealed in the new book Picky by Helen Zoe Veit. She demonstrates clearly that until the early 20th century children ate and relished exactly the same foods as adults did, including some that adults today might avoid. A well-intentioned desire to give infants the best possible nutrition was the primary culprit, because it robbed them of hunger.

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