The Secret History of Food : : Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything we eat
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Call Number: 394.12 Si, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Cooking / Essays & Narratives / Siegel, Matt
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A history of swallowing -- Pie, progress, and Plymouth Rock -- Breakfast of champions -- Children of the corn -- Honey laundering -- The vanilla of society -- The ghosts of Cockaigne past -- The choices of a new generation -- Forbidden berries (or appetite for distraction) -- Attack of the killer tomatoes.
Exploring cultural, scientific, sexual, and culinary substructures, this essential read for all foodies, at turns both funny and fascinating, looks at the little-known history surrounding food.
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The History of Food submitted by interstice on October 9, 2022, 10:51pm Despite the description, this is not just for foodies. It's full of surprising facts, historical and contemporary. It's constantly funny, or gross - or both - and eye-opening as well on what goes on behind the scenes. You may swear off meat after this - and vegetables. And honey, and vanilla, and...
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 270 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062973214
0062973215
SUBJECTS
Food habits -- History.
Food -- History.