Would you believe... marzipan contains cyanide? : and other freaky food facts /

Platt, Richard

Would you believe... marzipan contains cyanide? : and other freaky food facts / Richard Platt. - Oxford Oxford University Press 2006 - 48 p. : ill (chiefly col.), ports ; 26cm. - pbk

Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references and index.

The author looks at the history of bizarre food and eating habits around the world, including the foods that our ancestors ate such as maggot cake or rotten fish, as well as those that are still eaten around the world today.

9780199114986 (hbk.) : 0199114986 9780199114986


Food - Juvenile literature
Food habits - Juvenile literature
Food habits - History - Juvenile literature
Prehistoric peoples - Food - Juvenile literature
Food - Folklore - Juvenile literature
Science
Home economics
Science
Home economics

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