Who wants pizza?
Subtitle: the kids' guide to the history, science & culture of food
By: Jan Thornhill
Publisher: Maple Tree Press; Distributed in the United States by Publishers Group West
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto; Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781897349960; 9781897349977
Subjects: Food; Aliments; Juvenile literature; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; History
Description: Discusses the history of food, from early hunter-gatherers and domesticating animals for food to the science behind food preservation, produce cultivation, artificial flavor enhancers, and genetic modification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why eat?; title: Why we eat, how our bodies use food, and how we react to food; title: How it all started; title: How humans evolved from hunter-gatherers to farmers to food preservers to chefs; title: Changing food; title: How our ways of producing food; title: and flavors!; title: have changed over the years; title: Food for thought; title: How food production is impacting the world, and why our food choices matter.