Predicting What My Toddler Will Eat Is Harder Than Starting My Own Business

But I’m learning

Marie Elena Martinez
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4 min readMay 1, 2020

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Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta. Photo: What’s Gaby Cooking

Butternut squash was my daughter’s first food.

Grace was 4 months old when my family gathered in my mom’s kitchen to watch the little butterball on my lap try her first “solid.” Would she like it? Had I picked the right starter food? All the baby cookbooks gave butternut squash high…

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Marie Elena Martinez
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Mama to Grace. Writer/Editor/Events + Food/Travel/Culture. Founder of Meets NYC. Co-Founder of New Worlder. www.marieelenamartinez.com