The first chapter not only reveals an ancient wisdom: This days this is easier said than done. It's always easier said than done. Those highly processed, food-like industrial substances are often more delicious and tempting than real food. For instance, renzaorou, in Chinese, which means meat-like man-made food mostly derived from soybeans is really welcome and has always been a hit in kids' world. We all know it's bad for health and adults scold their kids for eating such kind of food-like substances instead of real food. While most kids, will sometimes sneakily fill their mouths with renzaorou to enjoy the deliciousness of it.
These days this is easier said than done, especially when seventeen thousand new products show up in the supermarket each year, all vying for your food dollar. But most of these items don't deserve to be called food - I call them edible foodlike substances. They're highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and they contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted.
vie
If one person or thing is vying with another for something, the people or things are competing for it.
这个词主要可以替换 compete 比如： 最近我们要公司要跟其他的公司竞争顾客，就可以说
Our company is vying fiercely with other companies for customers.
concoction
A concoction is something that has been made out of several things mixed together.
混合物、调制品，我昨晚在家喝了自酿的梅子酒（超级好喝！），梅子酒本身就是 concoction 调制品，我又加了冰、咖啡、可乐，一开始可乐比较少，味道怪怪的，当你再加入适量的可乐和咖啡时，味道调配到刚刚好，也是非常美味的。
Yesterday I made a concoction of alcohol, plum, sugar, coffee and coke, which seemed to be crazy but it turned out great! Once you take a sip, you wouldn't forget the flavor and want to have more.
pantry
A pantry is a small room or large cupboard in a house, usually near the kitchen, where food is kept.
其实就是专门放食品的储物柜，通常搁在厨房里，我们可以用这个词汇来替换我们在厨房场景中常常使用的 cupboard
Today foods are processed in ways specifically designed to get us to buy and eat more by pushing our evolutionary buttons - our inborn preferences for sweetness and fat and salt. These tastes are difficult to find in nature but cheap and easy for the food scientist to deploy, with the result that food processing induces us to consume much more of these rarities than is good for us.
push sb's buttons (press sb's buttons)
to make sb react in either a positive or a negative way
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