Food: Peppers, Popcorn, and Pizza

by Celeste A. Peters

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739801368
• ISBN13: 9780739801369
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Raintree
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

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ent, pasturage,provender,provision...The book begins with history of growing food, ranching, kinds of..."What you are willing to eat depends largely on what you have been taught to think of as food", (Page 8) our author explains.IGNORANCE IS BLISS:I repulsed when I read "mushrooms are made of the same substance that makes up the outer skeleton of insects. It is called chitin."(Page 8). So much for eating mushrooms from here on..!"Tastes vary form culture to culture."(Page 8) "Humans are the only mammals that will not eat decaying food."(ibid.)The book includes old world/new world foods. If it weren't for the new world food contributions we would not have pizza in our diets, horrifying thought, yes...do read this book so you are privy as to why."Exercises" in the book test one's knowledge."Food for thought" on page 12 regarding Genetically Altered Food; also, in a later "chapter" Irradiated foods.Includes calorie counter, "bitesized facts"(as previously mentioned in summary above, the senses, digestion, food poisining, food allergies, nutritions, vitamins, myths, cooking, technology (see also: space-age foods); "why do certain foods react...to 'such-and such'" ie.: soda fizz, onions making eyes water, popcorn's "pop", bread; fungi and enzymes, cheese production, professional baking, preventative measures and food spoilage;, surveys, fast facts, bibliography and website links, glossary."pFUN, pFANTASTIC, pFOOD at its pFINEST!" Peruse!