Hungry Monkey Quotes

“This was the second time a recall had hit home. The first time, Iris’s toy cell phone was recalled because the antenna could break off and present a choking hazard. We contacted the company, and they promptly sent a replacement. By this time, however, Iris was three years old, too old to choke on a busted cell phone, so we just kept both toys. This was probably unethical of us, but we got our karmic payback: two toy cell phones are twice as loud as one. I complained to Iris that she was making an infernal racket, and thereafter she would come to me, waving the two phones, and say, “Hey, Dada, you want to play Infernal Racket?”
― Matthew Amster-Burton, Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater

“I joked with the anesthesiologist for a while, and then a nurse handed me a baby.”
― Matthew Amster-Burton, Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater