Foodie’s angst: Are my kids food neurotics?

17th April, The Times

My kids want KFC. Where did I go wrong?

Alex Renton and family during lunch, Foulden, Berwick on Tweed. Tom Main for The Times

On the way to lunch at Giorgio Locatelli’s restaurant in London, we crossed Oxford Street. My son Adam, 11, trudging along grumpily at the prospect of a boring two hours in a posh restaurant, raised his nose. He sniffed the air, like a gourmet catching a whiff of bouillabaisse in a Marseilles back street. He sighed rapturously and said: “KFC! I just want to know what it tastes like. Imagine, I’m a child who has never even tried Kentucky Fried Chicken.”

Read on here at Times Online