What Caesar Did for My Salad: the Secret Meanings of Our Favourite Dishes by Albert Jack

What Caesar Did for My Salad: the Secret Meanings of Our Favourite Dishes

Albert Jack

368 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actu...

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