AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Byline: Gaby Wood
Ava is omnivorous," I wrote in my diary soon after my daughter turned ten months old. She loved mangoes, chorizo, smoked salmon, shepherd's pie-her palate, at least, was well traveled. I liked to imagine that her unstoppable appetite would translate to a similarly fearless embrace of life.
So it was without hesitation that I tore off a corner of my peanut-buttered toast a few months later and gave it to her. Nothing happened at first, but after an hour, as I tried to put her down for a nap, she squirmed and began to scratch her ear. When I looked, I saw her ear was red, and as I was wondering what it might be, the rash spread to her ...