This nicely titled book (guess the editor rejected the first try "What the Fork") is a good read for anyone interested in what we cook with, what we cook, and how we cook it as well as any trivia fans.
Spit roasting, refrigerators, the effect of diet on dentition, chopsticks (did you know that the Japanese phobia of using eating utensils touched by anyone else mandates the production of cheap disposable wood chopsticks - the ones you break apart that come with every Chinese food order? Did you know that the habit had spread to China with the result that they used up their available supply of the sort of woods used for them Did you know that a substantial amount of the chopsticks used in China are made and exported from Georgia with 'Made in USA' on them?) - sorry, I got carried away, but this book will make you the envy of the food trivia bunch at otherwise boring cocktail parties.
Even if you don't want to own it, search it out at your local library and give it a try. I could see Jenise doing a series of Foodie Facts here based on the contents!
