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Food Weird-o-Pedia
The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Food and Drink
Alex Palmer4.3
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Hundreds of weird and wonderful facts are included in this massive encyclopedia of food and drink oddities!
Food Weird-o-Pedia offers up hundreds of off-kilter bits of info about food that will make you rethink what you know about even those dishes you've been eating your whole life. Organized in sections such as "Between-Meal Tidbits: Curious Facts about Snacks" and "Spice Up Your Life: Unexpected morsels about condiments, sauces and spices," each chapter offers an alphabetical encyclopedia of strange facts that will give you plenty to chew over whether reading from cover-to-cover or just flipping to a random page during a lunch break.
Learn weird and obscure facts about:
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Breads, Cereal & Baked Goods
• Meat, Dairy & Seafood
• Junk Food
• Condiments, Sauces & Spices
• Beverages
• Desserts
And weird facts such as:
• Cherries may have killed the twelfth president of the United States.
• Why we call that vulgar sound we make by putting our tongue between our lips and blowing out a "raspberry."
• The Spanish conquistadors of Central and South America used avocado pits to produce ink that they used to compose documents, many of which survive today.
• Enzymes on the inside of a banana peel actually encourage splinters to move toward the skin's surface.
• And many, many more!
Every one of us has a deeply personal relationship to the food we eat, each as unique as we are. But there is also a lot that can surprise us about what we put in our body-unexpected facts about staple fruits and veggies, strange backstories to our favorite sweets, and ways of whipping up a familiar dish that are downright weird. These odd aspects of the food we eat are what this book is all about. Food Weird-o-Pedia is sure to provide plenty of fodder to impress friends and family over your next meal-whatever it is you're eating.
Food Weird-o-Pedia offers up hundreds of off-kilter bits of info about food that will make you rethink what you know about even those dishes you've been eating your whole life. Organized in sections such as "Between-Meal Tidbits: Curious Facts about Snacks" and "Spice Up Your Life: Unexpected morsels about condiments, sauces and spices," each chapter offers an alphabetical encyclopedia of strange facts that will give you plenty to chew over whether reading from cover-to-cover or just flipping to a random page during a lunch break.
Learn weird and obscure facts about:
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Breads, Cereal & Baked Goods
• Meat, Dairy & Seafood
• Junk Food
• Condiments, Sauces & Spices
• Beverages
• Desserts
And weird facts such as:
• Cherries may have killed the twelfth president of the United States.
• Why we call that vulgar sound we make by putting our tongue between our lips and blowing out a "raspberry."
• The Spanish conquistadors of Central and South America used avocado pits to produce ink that they used to compose documents, many of which survive today.
• Enzymes on the inside of a banana peel actually encourage splinters to move toward the skin's surface.
• And many, many more!
Every one of us has a deeply personal relationship to the food we eat, each as unique as we are. But there is also a lot that can surprise us about what we put in our body-unexpected facts about staple fruits and veggies, strange backstories to our favorite sweets, and ways of whipping up a familiar dish that are downright weird. These odd aspects of the food we eat are what this book is all about. Food Weird-o-Pedia is sure to provide plenty of fodder to impress friends and family over your next meal-whatever it is you're eating.