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Product Description: "Come and get your bugs for supper!" That's probably not what you want to hear from your mom. Check out some of the most bizarre things humans have eaten throughout history.

Paperback:

9781491443453 | Edge Books, August 1, 2015, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Come and get your bugs for supper!

Library:

9781491442739 | Edge Books, August 1, 2015, cover price $27.32 | About this edition: "Come and get your bugs for supper!

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Product Description: It's actually true that Mongol warriors rode with slabs of raw meat under their saddles then ate them that night in camp! It's actually true that Chinese archaeologists found 4,000-year-old noodles in an overturned cup. It's actually true that Americans buy $1 billion worth of chocolate each Valentine's Day...read more

Paperback:

9781939629210 | Familius, September 5, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: It's actually true that Mongol warriors rode with slabs of raw meat under their saddles then ate them that night in camp!

'Describes humans' food choices, preparations, and mealtime etiquette over the course of history'--Provided by publisher.

Hardcover:

9781587285776 | Two-Can Pub Inc, October 1, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 'Describes humans' food choices, preparations, and mealtime etiquette over the course of history'--Provided by publisher.

Paperback:

9781587285783 | Two-Can Pub Inc, October 1, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: 'Describes humans' food choices, preparations, and mealtime etiquette over the course of history'--Provided by publisher.

Prebinding:

9781442008175 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $18.95
9781417757923 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2006, cover price $20.80 | About this edition: 'Describes humans' food choices, preparations, and mealtime etiquette over the course of history'--Provided by publisher.

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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.

Hardcover:

9780199114986 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 7, 2006, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: 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:

9780199114993 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 6, 2007, cover price $11.90

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Product Description: Stone Age people invented the first knives...and also the first spoons.In the Middle Ages the first books of manners told readers to wipe their greasy fingers on the tablecloth. And in 1669 King Louis XIV ordered that table knives should have rounded ends because there'd been too many stabbings...read more
By Patricia Lauber and John Manders (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781442409378, titled "What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks, & Chopsticks: What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks, & Chopsticks" | Simon & Schuster, April 30, 2010, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Stone Age people invented the first knives.
9780689851001 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, July 1, 2002), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners.

School and Library:

9780689804793, titled "What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks, & Chopsticks" | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1999, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners

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9780606242578, titled "What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks and Chopsticks" | Demco Media, December 1, 2001, cover price $15.85 | About this edition: Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners.

Prebinding:

9780613538794 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $15.50 | About this edition: Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners.

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Depicts ten banquets from different periods in history and the guests and types of food that would have been found at them

Library:

9780761314158 | Millbrook Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $22.90 | About this edition: Depicts ten banquets from different periods in history and the guests and types of food that would have been found at them

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Product Description: How have humans come to terms with their basic need for food? We couldn t survive without food, yet we don't often ponder how it was that our food became available to us. Rarely do we consider that the variety & abundance of today's edibles are the result of years & years of human ingenuity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780788151972 | Diane Pub Co, January 1, 1998, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: How have humans come to terms with their basic need for food?
9780395667903 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of food production from primitive hunting and fishing to modern cattle breeding and factory ships

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A historical exploration of food and eating customs in different cultures around the world, including ancient Egypt and medieval Europe.

Paperback:

9780746004524 | Usborne Pub Ltd, June 1, 1989, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them

Library:

9780881103991 | Edc Pub, November 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A historical exploration of food and eating customs in different cultures around the world, including ancient Egypt and medieval Europe.

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