Contents

Introduction

Baby-Food in the Middle Ages
Melitta Weiss Adamson

‘Please, Sir, I want some more’ Feeding of children in workhouses in the 19th century
Joan P Alcock

Flavour is Nurture – Not Nature
Anthony Blake

Piki, Polenta, and Pellagra: Maize, Nutrition and Nurturing the Natural
Barrett P Brenton

Slow Schooling
Franca Chiarle, Anya Fernald, Sophie Herron, Silvia Monasterolo

Family meals, sharing and hierarchy in a West-African town
Liza Debevec

In Sickness and In Health
Daphne L Derven

A Nice Cup of Bovril in Utopia
Margaret Drabble

Our first and sweetest nurture…’
Dreaming of food from Ancient Greek comedies to Russian folktales
Alexandra Grigorieva

“Quit Playing, You’ll Spoil Your Dinner!”
The Impact of Youth Sports on Childhood Eating Behaviors
Natalie Anne Halbach

Children’s Cookery Books: Nurturing Adults’ Ideas About Society
Ursula Heinzelmann

Slow Food, Slow School: Nurture and Education
Maurice Holt

Food Guidance from my Grandparents
Philip Iddison

Nurturing a Holiday: Christmas Foods in 18th and 19th Century America
Cathy K Kaufman

The Flavour Continuum
Samantha Kilgour

Picnics and Fairy Tales: or, Let them Eat Cake: Satisfy the Psyche and Starve the Child
Walter Levy

The Business of Food: Preserving Culinary Traditions Keeps the Family Fed in the Philippines
Pia Lim-Castillo

Mentoring: a model for the future nurturing of Culinary Talent
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

The Earth's golden oil: the shelf-life of Nurture
A vertical tasting of Manni extra virgin olive oil 2001 and 2002
Armando Manni

Byron, Bread and Butter
Antony Peattie

What Ibn Jazla Says You Should Eat
Charles Perry

Images of Infant Nutrition: Sightings of food in group & child portraits
Gillian Riley

My brother always made Blue Peter’s potato curry. He still does.
Cooks, Home-cooking and Becoming a Cook
Frances Short

Commercial Nurturing: The Culinary Education of America’s Youth
Andrew F Smith

Mumbling
Colin Spencer

Nuts for the children: the evidence of the Talmudic literature
Susan Weingarten

‘But I saw it on TV!’ - How do you get children to eat real food?
Mary Whiting

Count Rumford’s Soup
Bee Wilson

Feeding the Artist
Carolin Young

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