An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today\'s toxic Food culture.
Virginia is the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America..
She lives with her husband and two daughters in the Hudson Valley.
She is also a contributing editor with Parents Magazine.
And they\'re all asking the same questions: How did we learn to eat this way? Why is it so hard to feel good about food? And how can we make it better?About the Author: Virginia Sole-Smith is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper\'s, Slate, and Elle.
But Sole-Smith shows how they\'re also all products of our modern Food culture.
Every struggle is unique.
The Eating Instinct visits kitchen tables around America to tell Sole-Smith\'s own story, as well as the stories of women recovering from weight loss surgery, of people who eat only nine foods, of families with unlimited grocery budgets and those on Food stamps.
When her newborn daughter stopped Eating after a medical crisis, Virginia Sole-Smith spent two years teaching her how to feel safe around Food again -- and in the process, realized just how many of us are struggling to do the same thing.
We parse every bite we eat as good or bad, and judge our own worth accordingly.
But for too many of us, Food now feels dangerous.
Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important job a mother has.
Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself.
Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us.
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today\'s toxic Food culture
