Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback, 2 Ed)

Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal - let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? Was self-styled 'nutritional economist' Horace Fletcher right to persuade millions of people that chewing a bite of shallot seven hundred times would yield double the vitamins? In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, and many more as she investigates the beginning, and the end, of our food.

General

Imprint:	Oneworld Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2014
Authors:	Mary Roach
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	340
Edition:	2 Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-78074-391-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General
LSN:	1-78074-391-2
Barcode:	9781780743912

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