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I'm Christopher Kimball. This is a special episode of Milk Street Radio. Today, it's an extended

cut of my interview with Helen Zoe Veit about how American children

became the fussyest eaters

in history. Her book is

called Picky.

Helen, welcome to Milk Street.

Thanks so much. I'm happy to be here.

I love this topic. Picky

eaters, kids being picky

eaters. I have a number

of children, two of them are still pretty young.

And I love the premise of this because you start out saying in the 19th century that kids, as you might expect, ate what their parents were eating because no one is going to create, you know, two sets of meals.

But you write, favorite meal of a New England boy in the 1850s, baked beans, codfish cakes, corned beef, salt pork,

turnips, cabbage, onions, mince, pie. So let's just expand on that. So kids like briny and sour, smoky, and vinegar, right?

Yeah.

So when I started researching in 19th century sources about what children were eating then,

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