Food Weird-o-Pedia: The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Food and Drink (Weird-o-Pedia)
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- Synopsis
- Hundreds of weird and wonderful facts in this massive encyclopedia of food and drink oddities! A perfect gift for foodies and trivia fans alike!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, baked goods, meat, dairy, seafood, junk food, condiments, sauces, spices, beverages, desserts, and more, 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."Enzymes on the inside of a banana peel actually encourage splinters to move toward the skin&’s surface.Dark soy sauce contains ten times the antioxidants of red wine and contributed to a decrease in risk of cardiovascular disease.The most egg yolks ever found in a single egg is nine.Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel&’s whiskey.Hershey&’s Kisses get their names from the smooching sound and motion the machine made when it popped the candy onto the conveyor belt.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.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 224 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781510765733
- Publisher:
- Skyhorse
- Date of Addition:
- 08/24/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Alex Palmer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Reference, Travel, Cooking, Food and Wine, Health, Mind and Body
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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