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bitesized chunks of food history, like the story of KoolAid and how microwaves were discovered, I have been having trouble focusing lately, so these were just what I needed, Sometimes its neither art nor science that serves as the origins of the everyday kitchen and food items that we take for granted today, Sometimes, as Josh Chetwynd shows us in How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun, some of our greatest culinary achievements were simply byproducts of “damned good luck.
” In How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun, Josh explores the origins of kitchen inventions, products, and foodstuff in seventyfive short essays that dispel popular myths and draw lines between food facts and food fiction.
Joshs charming text combined with simple line illustrations makes this an excellent gift and goto source book for all food and trivia buffs, Interesting in beginning, but quickly became repetitive Lots of information about food origins, Fun to read. Lots of trivia, including the conflicting origin stories for things that will never be resolved, Fun trivia, but short on details, Reads as though this book was written in a hurry, I like food. I like fun trivia facts, A book filled with fun trivia facts about food sounds like a winner to me, Couple caveats: some of the facts seem a little tangential a story about how linoleum was invented really! and it got annoying when a lot of the origin stories can't be fully verified I really wanted to know whether Philippe's really originated the french dip sandwich and the Buena Vista the Irish coffee, as they claimed.
But still, good book to read on the Metro for my commute, A list of foodstuffs and how they came to be invented/improved, I was expecting a more indepth study of these items and the cultural changes to led to their existence, something along the line of "Consider the Fork" by Bee Wilson.
Some interesting anecdotes, and some good humor interspersed in the stories I especially liked the story of graham crackers, This book has some interesting anecdotes about the origins of various types of foods and foodrelated products, but it's so frothy and insubstantial that it's barely worth the time to read.
It's written at the level of trivia blurbs that might pop up on the Food Network, and the author takes a cavalier attitude towards his subject, tossing off competing accounts with a shrug of the shoulders and a refusal to dip below the surface of things.
His humor is groanworthy and the prose is conversational, It's not horrible if you're looking for bathroom reading about the kitchen, but don't expect much more, This was a very enjoyable book, It was a lot less biased than the last kitchen based history I read sitelinkConsider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat.
This was much more of a presentation of the actual history of the items, I already new some of the stories, but still enjoyed the tales, The ones I didn't know were extremely interesting, one even helped me on a recent trivia game, If you are interested in food, or history, especially the combination of both, I would recommend giving this book a try, Too short!

This is my kind of easy read books, information that you've maybe wondered about, and lite enough reading to forget your troubles for a while.
It was way too short though! A fun, quick read, with brief discussions of the origins of the foods covered, Not in

depth, and doesn't necessarily always come down definitively on the side of one origin story being true, but for me that was finethis was exactly what I was looking for.
Plus, a bibliography at the end for further reading always delights my nerdy heart, Not very appetizing.

The cover is misleadingly professional, as everything else about the book gives off a very strong "selfpublished" vibe, Inside, it's a mishmash of origin stories for various foods, drinks, and kitchen implements, all written in an extremely casual tone with plenty of chatty parenthetical asides, and occasionally festooned with what appears to be clipart.


wat Interesting trivia book about everyday food, Some of the stories are truly amazing, However others were that we already know ok, Read alright, but at times I got to the end of a product and it ended in the author in doubt of the story the author just told.
Overall, enjoyed it and was pretty interesting, for what it is, it's a neat book, It had a lot of interesting essays about how certain foods came to be, Some stories were more interesting than others, It got a little ranty at times but that's okay, It isn't something I'd normally read through if I were looking for an actual book, but it's cool, Lots of fun trivia to annoy my friends with, Lots of interesting information about the origin of many favorite food items! I found maybeof the stories interesting, But fun book, nonetheless. I love food, trivia, and odd stories about how nowcommonplace items came into being, Those three subjects collide in this book, and the result is a very entertaining, often humorous, usually surprising look at how many things we now take for granted came into being, not just items like the hot dog bun in the title better than eating it wearing a glove, but also Nachos creative desperation, Caesar Salad nope, not the Roman, and KoolAid an inventor goes postal.
Aside from food items, we have such standards of modern life as the Saran Wrap, Corningware and the dishwasher, the last developed by an aristocratic woman tired of all his nice plates and cups being broken by the hamhanded help.
What many of these food and foodrelated innovations have in common is that they were created either by accident or through fortuitous incidents, In the book, Louis Pasteur is credited with saying that in the field of observation, the prepared mind is favored by fortune, This is certainly the case in the creation of Bisquick, which was once nothing more than a cooking shortcut in latenight railroad dining carsuntil a salesman saw its possibilities.
The same is true of the microwave oven in that many scientists noticed how food heated up in the presence of magnetron tubes, but it took a “prepared mind” to make the connection between a melted candy bar in his pocket and a device that now no college student can live without.
Not all origin stories are clear cut, for the passage of years have produced many claimants for the mantle of inventor of one thing or another, either for fame or monetary gain, and some of those battles for recognition are as interesting as the inventions themselves.
The book is divided into specific sections for ease of browsing, and references are included for all the claims and counterclaims, Whether you are truly interested in the origins of modern food, or just want to annoy your friends, this book is a pleasant and interesting diversion, .