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631 pages ; 22 cm
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"Alexandre Stern has compiled a veritable "bucket list" of foods to try at least once in life. Bringing together gastronomy, discovery, and travel, this geographically organized journey highlights more than 700 culinary specialties spanning five continents. There is much food trivia and history to ponder: the common carrot originated in Afghanistan, while fish sperm is prized in Japan. Baba au rhum -- famed as a refined masterpiece of upscale French...
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What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous...
9) It's disgusting-- and we ate it!: true food facts from around the world-- and throughout history!
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37 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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A collection of poems, facts, statistics, and stories about unusual foods and eating habits both contemporary and historical.
10) Quench: beat fatigue, drop weight, and heal your body through the new science of optimum hydration
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xii, 291 pages ; 24 cm
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"Chronic headaches ... brain fog ... fatigue ... weight gain ... insomnia ... gut pain ... autoimmune conditions. We may think these and other all-too-common modern maladies are due to gluten intake or too much sugar or too little exercise. But there is another missing piece to the health puzzle: Proper hydration. Yes, even in this era of Poland Spring many of us are dehydrated due to moisture lacking diets, artificial environments, medications, and...
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California studies in food and culture volume 21
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368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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English
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xxxiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Reveals the positive benefits of enjoying moderate portions of vilified ingredients ranging from red meat and alcohol to gluten and salt.
"Advice about food can be confusing. Experts seem to agree on only one thing: some ingredients--often the most enjoyable ones--are bad for you, full stop. But as physician Aaron Carroll explains, if we stop consuming some of our most demonized foods, it may actually hurt us. Examining troves of studies on dietary...
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xv, 282 pages ; 25 cm
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Visiting kitchen tables around America, this timely volume explores today's toxic food culture, telling the stories of those who are struggling with food issues and providing insight into how to feel good about food.
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture. Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding...
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
17) Pinkalicious
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A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
19) Crunch munch
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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A rhythmic description of the different ways in which various animals eat, from a frog eating flies to a cat lapping milk.
20) Lunch
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A very hungry mouse eats a large lunch comprised of colorful foods.
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