Gulp [electronic resource] : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Roach, Mary2013
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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.
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Roach, Mary, authorCloud
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[S.l.] : Oneworld Publications, 2013.
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1 online resource336 p.
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Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Oneworld Publications 2013 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 4.2 MB)
ISBN:
9781780742199
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English
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BRN:
3150490