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Would You Believe...marzipan Contains Cyanide?: And Other Freaky Food Facts
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
September 7, 2006
Pages
48
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Juvenile Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780199114986
ISBN-10
0199114986
Dimensions
0.25 by 7.75 by 9.75 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$17.15
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Teaches the reader 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. This work includes food myths, eating taboos and how archaeologists discover what Neolithic man ate.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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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Hardcover
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from Oxford Univ Pr (September 7, 2006)
9780199114986 | details & prices | 48 pages | 7.75 × 9.75 × 0.25 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $17.15
About: Teaches the reader 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.
About: Teaches the reader 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.
Paperback
from Oxford Univ Pr (September 6, 2007)
9780199114993 | details & prices | 48 pages | 7.50 × 9.50 × 0.25 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $11.90
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