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Did you know that meatballs were invented in America, not Italy? Or that beer was the first alcoholic beverage known to civilization? And each member of the American Colonial Army received a daily ration of four ounces of either rum or whiskey. Were you aware that the fruit of the South American Sandbox Tree explodes when it is ripe, scattering the seeds for fifty feet or more and making a noise loud enough to be mistaken for gunfire? Or that most fish have taste buds all over their body? Chickens are able to recognize and remember more than one hundred different faces of people or animals. Unagi Pie are Japanese cookies made with crushed eel bones and eel extract. There is a National Food Day for every day of the year, including 'National Crunchy Taco Day' on March twenty-first (not to be confused with 'National Soft Taco Day' on October sixth and National Taco Day on October fourth). And everyone's favorite food day, May eleventh, is 'National Eat What You Want Day. These are only a few of the hundreds of interesting food-related facts you'll discover in Nancy Slade's book, Tasty Trivia, along with nutritional information and health benefits of most of the foods you eat, as well as many foods you may never have known existed.

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Nancy Slade is passionate about food and the emotional impact associated with it. Growing up in an Italian-American family in New York, food was the focus of all family events. Being a military spouse for many years, she had the opportunity to live in several interesting places and enjoy regional and ethnic foods. She learned what food can represent, experienced cultural food traditions, and saw how excited people can be about what they eat (or won't eat). As she and her friends have gotten older, how food impacts their health has become a continual topic of conversation so she began researching the health benefits associated with food. This led to discovering food origins and interesting and often humorous bits of trivia. It is a pleasure for Nancy to write about and share with others her passion for food. As delightful as food is for her, she is an advocate for feeding the poor and encourages everyone to get involved in some way with outreach programs.

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