Were Potato Chips Really Invented by an Angry Chef?
And Other Questions about Food
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2011
40 pages
978-0-7613-7221-9 (ISBN)
Description
Adding salt to water makes it boil faster. Eating turkey makes you sleepy. Organic food is best for the environment. You may have heard these common sayings and beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven through research? Let s investigate seventeen food-related statements and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones still stump the experts! Find out whether fats are always bad for you! Learn if rhubarb leaves are really poisonous! See if you can tell the difference between fact and fiction with Is That a Fact?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United States
Publishing group
Lerner Publishing Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
US School Grade: From Fourth Grade to Sixth Grade, Reading Age: From 9 to 10 years, Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Illustrations
Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations, color
ISBN-13
978-0-7613-7221-9 (9780761372219)
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01/2011
Lerner Publications (Tm)
€44.52
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Person
Deborah Kops has written more than twenty books for children and young adults. She lives with her husband and son in Greater Boston, and enjoys visiting old historic cities along the Atlantic coast, such as Salem, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Did People in Medieval Europe Really Use Spices to Hide the Smell of Bad Food?
- Is It True That Adding Salt to Water Makes It Boil Faster?
- Do People Really Eat Butterflies and Little Tongues and Ears?
- Were Potato Chips Really Invented by an Angry Chef?
- Did Johnny Appleseed Really Plant Apple Trees All Over the United States?
- Is It True That Eating Turkey Makes You Sleepy?
- Are Fortune Cookes Really a Chinese Food?
- Is a Tomato Really a Fruit?
- Did American Indians Really Eat Popcorn Thousands of Years Ago?
- Is It True That Fats in Food Are Always Bad for You?
- Were Chocolate Chip Cookies Once Called Toll House Cookies?
- Does Rice Really Feed Half the World?
- Was the Ice-Cream Cone Really Invented at the Saint Louis World's Fair?
- Is It True That Organic Food Is Always Best for the Environment?
- Are Rhubarb Leaves Really Poisonous?
- Did the Pilgrims Really Eat Cranberry Sauce and Sweet Potatoes at Their Thanksgiving Feast?
- Do People Really Run Pancake Races in England?
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography/Further Reading
- Index/Photo Acknowledgments/Copyright Info
- Back Cover
