Fresh fruit -- Crisp and curious -- Fun with flour -- Carnivorous cravings -- Between-meal tidbits -- Spice up your life -- Strange sips -- Sweet endings

Hundreds of weird and wonderful food and drink oddities! A perfect gift for foodies and trivia fans alike! Every one of us has a deeply personal relationship to the food we eat, each as unique as we are. But there is also a lot that can surprise us about what we put in our body--unexpected facts about staple fruits and veggies, strange backstories to our favorite sweets, and ways of whipping up a familiar dish that are downright weird. These odd aspects of the food we eat are what this book is all about. Food Weird-o-Pedia is sure to provide plenty of fodder to impress friends and family over your next meal--whatever it is you're eating. Includes deliciously obscure facts, such as: Cherries may have killed the twelfth president of the United States; Enzymes on the inside of a banana peel actually encourage splinters to move toward the skin's surface; Dark soy sauce contains ten times the antioxidants of red wine; The most egg yolks ever found in a single egg is nine; Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey; and many, many more!