Danny, eating is a wonderful thing. For me, I believe eating should be an adventure. If someone can cook, or maybe just slice it up nice so it no longer moves around, I'll try it. I won't say I'll eat it twice, but one time it worth the effort.
The lovely Mrs_Bob has a similar attitude and we try to instill the message in our 9 year old daughter's eating habits. We've been taking her out to eat with us since she was just a baby, and we probably visit Chinatown in Chicago about once a month and try to take her to nice places for dinner. We don't go out for dinner a lot, but when we do we do it up nice. No chain restaurants. And quite often when I travel for business the lovely Mrs_Bob and our daughter will fly out to join me for the weekend, then we hit the really nice spots. I love watching cooking shows on TV and we get Bon Appetite and Gourmet magazines, we get a kick out of seeing stories about places we've taken our daughter to. She is probably one of the best fed kids around!
So I guess I would encourage you to try all sorts of different seafoods and veggies, and if you don't like something cooked one way, try the same thing, but cooked in a different style. It always amazes me how different something can taste just by the way it is prepared. I grew up on baked fish with lemon on it, couldn't stand it, and now I would never even dream of eating fish the way my mom prepared it, but I've sure grown to love fish prepared 10 other ways. And steaks are great, but there are lots of ways to prepare them that make them even better. Eating should be an adventure! Danny, I would also point out that there is no need to go to fancy places just to eat well. I love "peasant" food from Poland and Slovakia as well as some of the foods from Scandanavia, my point is to try different things. I'm just as happy with a good loaf of garlic rye and a spicy salami as I am with a fancy 7 course meal. But my point is to try both, and everything in between!!!
