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Nutrition & Food
The curiosities of food
P. L. Simmonds
413 pages~8 hr 13 min read12 chapters$1.99
Elephants, reptiles, insects, and spiders all appear on somebody's menu, and Peter Lund Simmonds catalogued every one. The curiosities of food surveys what the world's peoples actually eat, order by zoological order, with Victorian thoroughness and barely concealed delight. The strangest food book of its century, and among the most learned. Read what dinner means elsewhere.
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Inside this book
12 chapters
- 1THE CURIOSITIES OF FOOD;
- 2QUADRUMANA.
- 3PACHYDERMATA, OR THICK-SKINNED ANIMALS.
- 4BIRDS.
- 5GRALLATORES.
- 6NATATORES.
- 7REPTILIA.
- 8FISH.
- 9INSECTS.
- 10ARACHNIDA.
- 11CRUSTACEA.
- 12FOOTNOTES:
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