The Perfect Food

I am 100% convinced that people are evolved to eat fruit. Several weeks ago, on a whim, I handed Sean a plum — a whole plum — to see what he’d do with it. What did he do? He ate it. Almost all of it. Quickly and with relish (and quite a bit of mess). Since then he’s actually gotten pretty efficient at eating fruit and makes less mess. He really loves plums, which fit his hands well, but the other stone fruits are right up there, as are pears. Here he eats a plum: