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What Caesar Did For My Salad

Paperback
Published : Thursday 2 August 2012
ISBN : 9780141043449
Price : €18.71


Description

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? This title tells the strange tales behind our favourite dishes and drinks and where they come from.



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