Leah Garrad-Cole founded Love Child Organics because she could not find baby food she was willing to feed her own child. This is the first cookbook out of that work, and it covers the whole arc rather than one stage of it.

More than one hundred and twenty recipes run from a baby first purees through toddler food and on to wholesome family meals everyone at the table actually eats, which is the part that saves a parent from cooking twice. Alongside them is parent tested advice on introducing foods, handling a fussy stage, and building a child appetite for real ingredients early.

The philosophy in the title is the whole thing: a lifelong appetite for good food is something you build, meal by meal, starting with the very first one. Joy McCarthy wrote the foreword. It is the baby shower gift that stays useful for years after the shower.