Its Disgusting And We Ate It: True Food Facts from Around the World and Throughout History - Hardcover

Solheim, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689806752 ISBN 13: 9780689806759

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Collects both interesting and nose-wrinkling facts about foods from history and around the world, celebrating such oddities as roasted spiders while providing complementary poems, recipes, and more. Jr Lib Guild.

About this title

From the Author

I talked to people from all over the planet and combed through hundreds of books in my search for the world's funniest foods. Research meant picking violets for 500-year-old royal recipes, telephoning Australia to ask if any people there eat worms (they do), and pondering deep philosophical questions like "Which fried insects make the best after-school snack?" (Aristotle recommends cicadas fat with eggs.) I even talked to a scientist who ate meat from a 36,000-year-old bison found frozen in Alaska.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-6ASolheim appeals to the gross-out side of kids in this exploration of edible grub (larvae and otherwise) around the world, past and present, and it's more laughs than a barrel of monkey brains (the one delicacy he missed). Divided into three sections, the book begins with "People Eat the Wildest Things," a look at some of the less common foods eaten today, such as frog legs, earthworms, snakes, insects, flowers, and seaweed. "From Mammoth Meatballs to Squirrel Stew" considers strange fare from the past, such as a menu from a medieval royal feast in England (14 oxen and 50 swans, among other things), the rat stew eaten by sailors, and the robins popular in Colonial America. "If You Think That's Sick, Look in Your Fridge" takes a look at how many common edibles, such as milk, cheese, honey, and mushrooms, are grown or produced. Each double-page spread includes basic facts and lots of interesting trivia written in a wacky, off-the-wall style that children will love. There are also poems-amusing, tongue-in-cheek odes to unusual delicacies (a haiku celebrates sushi). Brace's cockeyed, whimsical illustrations, done with colored pencils and acrylic paints, are delightful. The pages are filled with colorful characters who make wry observations about the text. Fact-packed fun from beginning to end.AJoyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KS
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0689806752
• ISBN 13: 9780689806759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 44
• Illustrator: Brace Eric