pickI mostly read this in small bites (ba dum tiss) in between work tasks, and really enjoyed learning about some very weird food history.
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The Secret History of Food: Strange But True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat | 
pickI mostly read this in small bites (ba dum tiss) in between work tasks, and really enjoyed learning about some very weird food history.
so-soListened again to this and got lost in the same spot. He starts talking about vanilla and it morphs into talking about ice cream and how it relates to vanilla, but also then Thomas Jefferson‘s 12 steps to make ice cream. I could have done without a list of every meat dish served at a medieval king‘s coronation or a list of several flavors of Oreo.
3⭐️ if you have a passing interest in food trivia or history. More food trivia.
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I actually finished this one today, but I listened while working and got distracted and missed things. It was interesting. I love my food history. I‘m going to listen to it again tomorrow so hopefully I can absorb more of the information.
I had to fast this morning before my annual physical so of course I picked up a book about food. 😂#nonfictionnovember
pickThis book focuses on specific foods. What we thought was good for us may not be and we thought was bad for us is really bad for us. The fish you‘re eating, may not be the fish you think your eating. The Olive Oil your consuming may not be Olive Oil. Honey, is full of whatever the bees consumed, including toxic plants and maybe even anti-freeze. Corn, we can‘t even digest it. You‘ll definitely not look at certain foods the same way again.
so-soStarts with flavors carried through breast milk and covers a whole lot more from historical food discoveries to modern uses and trends. I didn't think I had an internal reading voice but totally read this hearing the comic wit of Mike Rowe as there is some opinions and snark within. I think my favorite chapter was about ice cream and it's ties to the war during sugar rationing but being so American as to get it to soldiers for moral boosting.
pickThis #audiobook was a fun yet informative look at the (mostly American) history of food. Why are British pies different than American? How did ice cream influence American history? What makes chili peppers important to humankind? The answers often surprised me! A great treat of a book. 😉
This puts me at 380 books in 2021, making this my best year ever! 🥳📚🎧 (I read 379 in 2020.)
A totally rad #NewReleaseTuesday coming at ya! I‘ve been on the list for this forever, so 🤞🏻 this week is awesome.
Why does it seem like it‘s 1987-1993 everywhere?? Am I just getting old?
