Tasty Trivia: A Collection of Interestng Food Facts

Did you know that meatballs were invented in America, not Italy? Or that beer was the first alcoholic beverage known to civilization? And each member of the American Colonial Army received a daily ration of four ounces of either rum or whiskey. Were you aware that the fruit of the South American Sandbox Tree explodes when it is ripe, scattering the seeds for fifty feet or more and making a noise loud enough to be mistaken for gunfire? Or that most fish have taste buds all over their body? Chickens are able to recognize and remember more than one hundred different faces of people or animals. Unagi Pie are Japanese cookies made with crushed eel bones and eel extract. There is a National Food Day for every day of the year, including 'National Crunchy Taco Day' on March twenty-first (not to be confused with 'National Soft Taco Day' on October sixth and National Taco Day on October fourth). And everyone's favorite food day, May eleventh, is 'National Eat What You Want Day." These are only a few of the hundreds of interesting food-related facts you'll discover in Nancy Slade's book, Tasty Trivia, along with nutritional information and health benefits of most of the foods you eat, as well as many foods you may never have known existed.