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""A profound historical investigation and a call to action."" -- ""Paul Freedman, Dept. of History, Yale University"" ""In her meticulously researched and eminently readable history of children's eating habits Veit reveals not only how American kids learned to be such picky eaters but exposes the food attitudes of the grown-ups in the kitchen."" -- ""Michael Krondl, author of Sweet Invention "" ""Veit draws on centuries' worth of primary sources to show that children used to be eager little omnivores―right up until the time that American culture, in tandem with the food industry, decided that kids can't possibly eat what everyone else is eating. This well-told history explains how a wrongheaded notion became conventional wisdom, with disastrous consequences for kids and parents alike."" -- ""Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate ""

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Helen Zoe Veit is an award-winning historian and writer. An associate professor of history at Michigan State University, she is the director of the What America Ate and America in the Kitchen projects, was an advisor for HBO's The Gilded Age, and was a member of Gastronomica's editorial collective. She is often cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Her book Modern Food, Moral Food was a James Beard Award finalist, and her edited volume Food in the Civil War Era: The North won a Gourmand International award. Helen Zoe Veit is an award-winning historian and writer. An associate professor of history at Michigan State University, she is the director of the What America Ate and America in the Kitchen projects, was an advisor for HBO's The Gilded Age, and was a member of Gastronomica's editorial collective. She is often cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Her book Modern Food, Moral Food was a James Beard Award finalist, and her edited volume Food in the Civil War Era: The North won a Gourmand International award.

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