What Caesar did for My Salad: The Curious Stories Behind Our Favourite Foods by Albert Jack

What Caesar did for My Salad: The Curious Stories Behind Our Favourite Foods

Albert Jack

350 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted slow-paced
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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 (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actu...

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