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Admirably adventurous eaters

One dad’s unusual experience feeding his children

By Savannah Naffziger
June 11, 2008

Matthew Forney’s children aren’t picky eaters. In fact, they will apparently eat just about anything, from scorpions to “hot prickly mustard tubers” to snails. In Forney’s piece in today’s New York Times, he pins it on their being raised in China, while his wife claims it began with breast-feeding. Either way the kids go against the stereotype of young diners who won’t eat anything but pasta.

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