Why You Eat What You Eat
The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food

This is a completely different book to the diet/healthy eating books I've been reading as it focuses on our taste buds and the way in which people can be given a food and one will love the taste and the other hate it.  It's an interesting insight on why we do what we do when it comes to food. I enjoy......more

(Also published on the bellevuefarmersmarket.org/blog.) When British mountaineer George Mallory was asked by a journalist, "Why did you want to climb Mt. Everest?" Mallory famously replied, "Because it's there." I feel like, for many of us, Why We Eat What We Eat might be summed up just as succinctly......more

I was turned onto this book when it was recommended in Martha Stewart Living magazine. I was interested in it because the synopsis talked about learning about connections with our food and habits, such as: why people who bring cloth grocery bags are more likely to buy treats at the grocery store. In......more

The term ‘page turner’ is often used to describe a thriller; but in this case, I think that the term adequately describes “Why You Eat What You Eat”. Every page contained a nugget of information gathered from various universities’ social experiments. Food taste, texture, and smell are the determinan......more

I have been thinking about what to say about this book for a long time so!! while this book was very informative and interesting I don’t think it completely explored how food, and access to food, is a classist, social prestige ordeal and there are more factors that go into why someone eats the way t......more