Biography
Helen Zoe Veit (PhD Yale 2008) specializes in the history of American food. Her new book, Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History (St. Martin’s, 2026) traces dramatic changes in children’s eating since the 19th century and tells the fascinating story of how “picky eating” came to hijack American childhood — and increasingly childhood around the world. Her first book, Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Tw
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