'When you open FIRST BITE and see Science, don't panic. It is a weirdly addictive, intelligent and enjoyable explanation of why we eat as we do: more unputdownable than any non fiction has a right to be. Everyone should read it. And it might change your life. ' Charlotte Mendelson 'Bee Wilson is the ultimate food scholar. First Bite is a brilliant study of how we form our food preferences and how we may be able to change them. Her narrative kept me hungry for more until the very end.' Yotam Ottolenghi "No matter what our age, we hunger for childhood food. First Bite weaves together fascinating scientific research to show why we wish we were still Kids in a Sweet Shop. The book's powerful message is that we can tap into the way we learned to eat as children to discover new flavours and healthier food habits." Heston Blumenthal 'The research is fascinating - I read it like a novel - and the writing a joy. But what makes this book so affecting and original is that it's clearly personal and heartfelt. I found it very moving.' Diana Henry 'This is a fascinating, at times provocative, investigation into how and why we eat what we do, how food can be both medicine and poison, and a call-to-arms manifesto to make eating guiltlessly pleasurable for all.' Nigella Lawson

Bee is an award-winning food writer, reviewer and journalist, currently author of 'The Kitchen Thinker' food column for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine (for which she has been named food journalist of the year three times by the Guild of Food Writers). She is the author of four previous books, most notably THE HIVE (John Murray), SWINDLED (John Murray) and CONSIDER THE FORK, published by Particular Books/Penguin Press and by Basic Books/Perseus in the US. Before she became a food writer, she was a Research Fellow in the History of ideas at St John's College Cambridge. Many years ago, she was a Masterchef semi-finalist. She is married with three children and lives in Cambridge.