Gardens of Plenty Gail Grecos Little Bed and Breakfast Cookbooks or Why We Eat What We Eat

Gardens of Plenty: Gail Greco's Little Bed and Breakfast Cookbooks

Author: Gail Greco

This culinary celebration of herbs and vegetables contains fresh delights like Windowsill Corn Muffins made in flowerpots and savory Tomato Cobbler. The recipes come from special inns where gardens of plenty abound and meals inspired by the good, giving earth are placed before guests.

New interesting book: Cooking with David Burke or Food for Today

Why We Eat What We Eat: The Psychology of Eating

Author: Elizabeth D Capaldi

This volume explores the shift in eating research from the search for bodily signals that trigger hunger to a focus on eating patterns emerging from a learning process that is based on life experience. This new book offers hope that healthful eating patterns can be learned. The volume proposes models for normal eating behavior and discusses how and why eating deviates from these norms. Leading investigators in the field present their findings on four factors that influence how our eating patterns develop: physiological factors, including those factors leading to taste aversions; developmental factors, starting with the effects of a pregnant woman's food choices on her child's later food preferences; biological factors, including genetics and the search for internal cues that prompt eating factors; cultural factors, including the powerful influence of family and social norms. Why We Eat What We Eat explores how these factors interact to shape our individual eating preferences and discusses the implications of this research for practitioners. The volume also compares eating patterns in the nonobese and the obese person and discusses the short-term satiety factor that ensures consumption of a variety of foods. Why We Eat What We Eat expands on themes in the well-received volume Taste, Experience, and Feeding and makes the information accessible to a wider audience. It will be of value to anyone interested in eating and its psychological aspects: health psychology researchers and practitioners, physicians, pediatricians, nutritionalists, educators, students, and parents.

Table of Contents:

	List of Contributors
	Introduction	3
1	Ingestive Homeostasis: The Primacy of Learning	11
2	Taste Aversion Learning	31
3	Conditioned Food Preferences	53
4	The Early Development of Human Flavor Preferences	83
5	The Role of Experience in the Development of Children's Eating Behavior	113
6	Sensory Factors in Feeding	145
7	Brain Mechanisms and the Physiology of Feeding	173
8	Social Influences on Food Preferences and Feeding Behaviors of Vertebrates	207
9	Sociocultural Influences on Human Food Selection	233
10	Sensory-Specific Satiety: Theoretical Frameworks and Central Characteristics	267
11	The Behavioral Phenotype in Human Obesity	291
	Author Index	309
	Subject Index	325
	About the Editor	339