Would You Believe...marzipan contains cyanide?: and other freaky food facts

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Hardcover
2006
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Young historians and chefs get a real taste of the stories behind food we eat as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international cuisine past and present. Readers will learn about the often disgusting yet utterly fascinating foods that our ancestors ate such as maggot cake or rotten fish, as well as those that are still eaten around the world today - grasshopper stew anyone! It includes food myths, eating taboos and how archaeologists discover what Neolithic man ate.

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Young historians and chefs get a real taste of the stories behind food we eat as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international cuisine past and present. Readers will learn about the often disgusting yet utterly fascinating foods that our ancestors ate such as maggot cake or rotten fish, as well as those that are still eaten around the world today - grasshopper stew anyone! It includes food myths, eating taboos and how archaeologists discover what Neolithic man ate.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 48
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 07 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 0199114986
ISBN 13: 9780199114986
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Book Overview: The Would You Believe... series is a fascinating journey into the evolution of things in our everyday lives; this book looks at the history of bizarre food and eating habits around the world

Would You Believe...marzipan contains cyanide?: and other freaky food facts

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