French Kids Eat Everything ( And Yours Can, Too ) - Softcover

Le Billon, Karen

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9781443408387: French Kids Eat Everything ( And Yours Can, Too )

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ISBN 10: 1443408387 ISBN 13: 9781443408387

Publisher: Collins, 2013

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"A must-read for teachers and parents."-Marion Nestle, author ofWhat to Eat

Moving her young family to her husband's hometown in northern France, Canadian Karen Le Billon is prepared for some cultural adjustment, but she doesn't expect a family food revolution. The fancy foods and snack-free culture she finds there are hard for her picky-eater daughters to handle. And equally hard for their mother, who is lectured-for slipping her fussing toddler a snack-"a recipe for obesity!"-and forbidden from sending a brown-bag lunch in lieu of the elaborate fourcourse-school lunches intended to teach children to love their veggies.

The family initially rebels, but Le Billon begins to see the wisdom in-a simple set of unwritten "food rules" that govern how the French foster healthy eating habits and good manners in babies and children. She observes-that French kids willingly eat everything-from fruit salad to foie gras, potato chips to snails, spinach to stinky blue cheese-and that this practice is considered normal by everyone, including the kids! Moreover, since diets are almost unheard of for French children, Le Billon discovers yet another version of the famous French paradox: while French kids love to eat, they are rarely overweight. And, intriguingly, although French parents spend just a few more minutes per day cooking than we do, their homemade meals are healthy and tasty, appealing to both adults and kids.

Combining personal anecdotes with practical tips and delicious, easy recipes (like Five-Minute Fish en Papillote, Baby's Vichyssoise, Cr�pes, Zesty Orange Salad, and Mousse Au Chocolat,French Kids Eat Everythingis a humorous, provocative look at the way we feed our kids.

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Moving her young family to her husband's hometown in northern France, Karen Le Billon expected some cultural adjustment. But she didn't expect to be lectured for slipping her fussing toddler a snack, or to be forbidden from packing her older daughter a school lunch. Karen is intrigued by the fact that French children happily eat everything—from beets to broccoli, from salad to spinach—while French obesity rates are a fraction of what they are in North America.

Karen soon begins to see the wisdom in the "food rules" that the French use to foster healthy eating habits and good manners in babies and children. Some of the rules call into question both our eating habits and our parenting styles. Other rules evoke commonsense habits that we used to share but have somehow forgotten. Taken together, the rules suggest that we need to dramatically rethink the way we feed children, at home and at school.

Combining personal anecdotes with practical tips and appetizing recipes—including Zucchini and Spinach Puree and Bouillabaisse (Fish Soup) for Babies—French Kids Eat Everything is a humorous, provocative look at families, food, and children that is filled with inspiration and advice that every parent can use.

About the Author:

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.

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