What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Secret Life of Food PUser Review - GoodreadsI really enjoyed this book. Elkort has a delightful sense of humor, and his book is a nice--if flawed--overview of food history. I'm not sure the layout of the book has much rhyme or reason, but it ... Review: Secret Life of Food PUser Review - Delsa Richards - GoodreadsOutdated, but still a fascinating book for those interested in food. Read full review Related books
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2 other sections not shown Common terms and phrasesalcohol American aphrodisiacs Apicius baked bean became beer began bottle bread brew called Camembert cheese candy century cereal cheese chef China Chinese chocolate cocoa butter coffee color Coney Island consumption contains cookbook cooking corn cuisine cure diet dinner disease dishes drink eaten eggs Egyptians England Europe farm feast Feltman's fish flavor flour flowers France French fruit garlic gourmet grain grape Greeks guests honey hot dogs hundred ice cream Indians ingredients invented Italian Italy kitchen Latin maple maple syrup meal meaning meat Medieval milk mushroom named Nathan's Nathan's Famous nest onions opened oysters pastry pellagra percent pigs pizza plant Pliny the Elder popcorn popular potato pounds pretzels protein restaurant rice Romans salad salt saturated fats sauce sausage served sold soup soybeans stomach sugar sweet syrup taste trees Trimalchio truffles United vegetables vitamin wheat wine word yogurt Bibliographic information |