A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Julie Mennella shares Avanelle Kirksey's interest in infant feeding practices around the world through an understanding of the environment, the infant, and especially, its cultural diversity.

Abstract

Julie Mennella shares Avanelle Kirksey's interest in infant feeding practices around the world. Dr. Mennella approaches human infant feeding through an understanding of the environment, the infant, and especially, its cultural diversity. Her belief that an infant's development of flavor appreciation begins in the womb is afresh perspective on human feeding.