Stories of simple food

No, this is not a culinary book at all, as many might think. But from it you can find out, for example, about how Europe honors the memory of a person who invented the most popular snack in Rus", or about how the King of Navarra Charles Evil died literally from vodka, but without learning its taste. And also - what is the difference between a jelly and a jerk and a jerky from a flood, and why is it suddenly a turkey from America began to call around the world a "Turkish bird", and where is the birthplace of apples, and why the sturgeons in Russia were called "red fish", And what does it mean with someone "in one porridge", and who in ancient Egypt ate bread with almonds, and why were the Franciscan monks were forbidden to use chocolate, and what the laws of Tsar Hammurabi on beer prices say, and why pair meat is not The best thing, and how to cook the egg with the help of sling ... Journalist Faina Osmanov and writer Dmitry Stakhov wrote an excellent book, stuffed with many facts, a book in which lovers are delicious to eat, and supporters of any diets will find a lot of interesting things for themselves