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How We Learn To Eat

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Many parents have watched a child open a well-stocked refrigerator, only to declare "there's nothing to eat."  Well, nothing THEY want to eat.

The choices we make about food are shaped by our parents, sure, but also culture and gender and just plain hunger, among other forces. 

Food writer and historian Bee Wilson examines those forces in her book First Bite

From nurture to neuroscience, she sets the table for discovery about this most basic of urges. 
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.