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The secret history of food : strange but true stories about the origins of everything we eat Cover Image Book Book

The secret history of food : strange but true stories about the origins of everything we eat

Siegel, Matt (author.).

Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 0062973215
  • ISBN: 9780062973214
  • Physical Description: 270 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-249) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Subject: Food habits -- History
Food -- History

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Mackenzie Public Library.

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Mackenzie Public Library 394.12 SIE (Text) 35192000446520 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
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