What Caesar Did for My Salad: The Curious Stories Behind Our Favorite Foods

by Albert Jack

Book Overview

Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399536906
• ISBN13: 9780399536908
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Perigee Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher