This Is Not A Diet Book

A User’s Guide to Eating Well

This book can’t give you a six-pack in seven days or the skin of a supermodel. But I can promise that if you make even a few of these adjustments, your eating life will alter for the better in ways that you can sustain.

This Is Not A Diet Book is a collection of calm, practical tips and ideas on healthier, happier eating from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson.

From unsweetening your palate to rethinking the lunchtime sandwich, This Is Not A Diet Book gathers together some of the wisest, most constructive advice for feeding you and your family.

Praise for This Is Not A Diet Book

Bee Wilson is the ultimate food scholar”

— Yotam Ottolenghi

[A] call-to-arms manifesto to make eating guiltlessly pleasurable for all”

— Nigella Lawson

If there were any justice in the world, this book should be at the top of this month’s diet-book bestsellers … I agree with every word she writes”

— Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times

If any book can effect long-term weight loss, it should be this one, because it feeds the mind rather than denying the body”

The Times

First Bite is a brilliant read; a month after finishing it, I still think of it every time I set the table”