Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until to her surprise--her parents grant her wish.

A little girl and her cat enjoy their lunch of cheese, apples, crackers, and milk in different ways.

Publisher Annotation: Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting-until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her...

When Leo adopts a cat, he names her Sugar and tries to feed her a piece of his birthday cake, but no matter what Leo does to try to make her eat it, the cat simply refuses.

A child rejects a number of foods before settling on one that is just right.