GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gastronomy, Pitaya, Peanut Butter
26 Nov 2016
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Frank bucklen: 19th century: geographic and gastronomist: his father: the first to describe dinosaurs scientifically, coprocopist: fossil species animals turned to stones show the diets, frank: ate everything. Published curiosity of natural history : all food, no matter the taste, looks, good chance that someone has tried it and ate it, and might be still eating it humans eat everything. King charles: liked to eat amberguri with eggs for breakfast: formed in intestine to reduce irritation of stomach used today for perfume industry. Chan cha: chinese worm tea most luxury tea. We don"t understand how our personal experience or cultural perspective of food. In italy today, people eat lattume: salty male reproductive gland preference. We eat food that we don"t know about since much has been adulterated. Alum: was added to food products, especially to bread make it whiter: requires alkaline soln to make it, obtained from urine; since its always available, urine was stored in barrels in europe.
