The World In Your Lunch Box: The Wacky History and Weird Science of Everyday Foods by Claire Eamer

Stars: ★★★★☆

Annick Press (2012)

Summary: Explore a week of lunches—from apples to pizza—by taking a romp through thousands of years of extraordinary events. Some are amusing, like the accidental invention of potato chips. Others are tragic, such as the Spice Wars, which killed thousands of people. – source

This book is an interesting take on what can often seem boring – the lunch box. If your school age child is finding their lunches everyday to be boring, perhaps they should read this book.
I learned all kinds of interesting food facts such as:

• Bread has been around since the Egyptians
• Cheese was discovered by accident
• Peppercorns are actually dried pepper berries
• What is actually in a hotdog
• How potato chips stay fresh inside the bags
• and MUCH, MUCH, MORE

The book is written like a child’s food diary. The book makes it sound like a mission to explore a week’s worth of lunches. The day’s lunch is written out and then interesting facts and research on some of the food items in that lunch are explained.
The book is peppered with food jokes and illustrations by Sa Boothroyd.

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The World in Your Lunch Box: The Wacky History and Weird Science of Everyday Foods (9781554513925): Claire Eamer, Sa Boothroyd: Books ISBN: 1554513928 ISBN-13: 9781554513925