Tag: unusual food
They Eat That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weirds and Exotic Food from around the World
by Jonathan Deutsch, Editor and Natalya Murakhver, Contributing Editor From the publisher: The title They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World says […]
We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Unusual Foods in the United States
edited by Jonathan Deutsch From the publisher: This entertaining and informative encyclopedia examines American regional foods, using cuisine as an engaging lens through which readers can deepen their study of […]
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
by Bill Schutt From the publisher: For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate […]
The Troubled History of Horse Meat in America
Horse meat has a long history of causing problems for American politicians. The Trump administration wants to cut the budget used by the Bureau of Land Management to care for […]
Were insects a major food source for early humans?
Insects, specifically termites, could have accounted for almost half the diet of hominins about 1.8 million years ago, according to researchers at Heriot Watt-University in the UK and Wayne State […]
To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic
edited by Rachel B. Herrmann From the publisher: Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609–1610—one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North […]
It’s Disgusting and We Ate It! True Food Facts from Around the World and Throughout History
by James Solheim From the publisher: An interesting and nose-wrinkling collection of true food facts from around the world and throughout history. How about a nice dish of Colonial Squirrel […]