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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 / Matt Siegel.

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

Content descriptions

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.
Subject: Food habits > History.
Food > History.
COOKING / History.
COOKING / Essays & Narratives.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy).
Food.
Food habits.
Food.
Eating customs.
Genre: History.

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East Grand Forks Campbell Library 394.12 SIEGEL 2021 (Text) 521199 Non-Fiction Available -

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24514. ‡aThe secret history of food : ‡bstrange but true stories about the origins of everything we eat / ‡cMatt Siegel.
250 . ‡aFirst edition.
264 1. ‡aNew York, NY : ‡bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, ‡c[2021]
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300 . ‡a270 pages ; ‡c24 cm
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504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-249) and index.
5050 . ‡aA 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.
520 . ‡a"Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually . . . English? "As a species, we're hardwired to obsess over food," Matt Siegel explains as he sets out "to uncover the hidden side of everything we put in our mouths." Siegel also probes subjects ranging from the myths--and realities--of food as aphrodisiac, to how one of the rarest and most exotic spices in all the world (vanilla) became a synonym for uninspired sexual proclivities, to the role of food in fairy- and morality tales. He even makes a well-argued case for how ice cream helped defeat the Nazis. The Secret History of Food is a rich and satisfying exploration of the historical, cultural, scientific, sexual, and, yes, culinary subcultures of this most essential realm"--provided by publisher.
520 . ‡aExploring 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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