What Caesar Did For My Salad: The Secret Meanings Of Our Favourite Dishes

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.

• | By (Author): Albert Jack
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 014104344X
• | ISBN-13: 9780141043449