Food Weird-O-Pedia - by Alex Palmer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Hundreds of weird and wonderful facts in this massive encyclopedia of food and drink oddities! A perfect gift for foodies and trivia fans alike!</b> <p/><i>Food Weird-o-Pedia </i>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. <p/> Learn weird and obscure facts about fruits, vegetables, baked goods, meat, dairy, seafood, junk food, condiments, sauces, spices, beverages, desserts, and more, such as: <ul><li><b>Cherries may have killed the twelfth president of the United States.</b></li><li><b>Why we call that vulgar sound we make by putting our tongue between our lips and blowing out a "raspberry."</b></li><li><b>Enzymes on the inside of a banana peel actually encourage splinters to move toward the skin's surface.</b></li><li><b>Dark soy sauce contains ten times the antioxidants of red wine and contributed to a decrease in risk of cardiovascular disease.</b></li><li><b>The most egg yolks ever found in a single egg is nine.</b></li><li><b>Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey.</b></li><li><b>Hershey's Kisses get their names from the smooching sound and motion the machine made when it popped the candy onto the conveyor belt.</b></li><li><b>And many, many more!</b></li></ul><br> 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. <i>Food Weird-o-Pedia </i>is sure to provide plenty of fodder to impress friends and family over your next meal--whatever it is you're eating.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>"My dependable guide to uncovering the oddities behind the many foods and drinks I write about." <i>--</i>James O. Fraioli<i>, </i>James Beard Award-winning author</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alex Palmer</b> is a journalist and excavator of fascinating facts. He is the author of the original <i>Weird-o-Pedia</i> as well as books of surprising tidbits including <i>Happiness Hacks</i>, <i>Alternative Facts</i>, and <i>Literary Miscellany</i>. He is also the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of <i>The Santa Claus Man</i> and his writing has appeared in <i>Lifehacker</i>, <i>Best Life</i>, <i>Mental Floss</i>, <i>Slate, </i> and <i>Esquire</i>
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