Food of Love: Your Formula for Successful Breastfeeding

By Kate Evans

Fresh and funny, this perfect gift for new mothers is a refreshingly different guide to breastfeeding. Packed with hilarious and stylish graphics, it will entertain the rest of us too: partners, friends, and anyone who has ever wondered how it all works. A perennial favorite with breastfeeding counselors and those working with new mothers, The Food of Love has the support of the professionals as well as of Kate's many fans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
• Release date: Nov 1, 2008
• ISBN: 9781908434838

Kate Evans

Kate Evans (1943-2016) called St. John’s home, but she was born and raised in Ireland. She immigrated to Canada in 1967 and moved to Newfoundland in 1969. Her first novel, Where Old Ghosts Meet, was shortlisted for The Margaret and John Savage First Novel Award and for the APMA Best Atlantic Published Book Award.

Reviews for Food of Love

[comixminx · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I bought this hoping for a book about breastfeeding that was entirely in comics form - a Logicomix of breastfeeding, or somesuch. What I got was a funny, well-written, illustrated book about breastfeeding (and, bye the bye, about attachment parenting, though it doesn't say that on the tin). It's sweet, very good, helpful, and well-researched (though I still wish it had been entirely in comics form - damn).

I don't agree with entirely everything in the book: there are some bits where she says that "one study" has proved something, and that seems a bit simplistic (that was in the co-sleeping section, I think - she's very fond of that). But overall this is a great book that I will almost immediately be passing on to a pregnant friend: the diagrams about how to start breast-feeding are worth the price of admission alone.

One small note: Kate Evans switches the gender of the baby throughout the book so that she talks about the baby being "he" and "she" alternately per chapter (or thereabouts). I don't know if I was being ultrasensitive, but it seemed to me like she still used the male gender more frequently, and it put me off slightly - this was particularly the case in the first few pages, before the alternation became clearer.

[babyhomer · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Not to be confused with the rom-com 'The Food of Love' by Anthony Capella, which I tried but failed to finish reading, this is a far superior book. The tone is very informal and friendly, and it is illustrated throughout; ideal if you are feeling particularly brain-dead, and just in need of some encouragement? I have read this in preparation of having my first child and while I don't expect it to have all the answers for any problems that I may encounter, I don't think it presents itself in that way regardless- more in tone of the friend/ relative who effortlessly breastfeeds (which we no longer have in Western cultures? ) than a Medical/ Doctor "Expert" on the matter. Also very interesting to read about co-sleeping.