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Rude Dude's Book of Food: Stories Behind Some of the Crazy-Cool Stuff We Eat
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4 out of 5
Based on 10 Ratings and 7 Reviews

Book Description
It's actually true that Mongol warriors rode with slabs of raw meat under their saddles then ate them that night in camp! It's actually true that Chinese archaeologists found 4,000-year-old noodles in an overturned cup. It's actually true that Americans buy $1 billion worth of chocolate each Valentine's Day. You think food is just stuff we eat!? Come on! There's a world full of great food stories ... More
Book Information
PublisherFamilius
BindingPaperback (2 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages144
ISBN-101939629217
ISBN-13978-1939629210
Publication Date09/05/2014
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About Tim Myers (Author) : Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and lecturer at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley. He won the 2012 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Fiction. His children’s books (11 out and f... more
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About Jess Smart Smiley (Illustrator) : Jess Smart Smiley is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. A published credit of Jess Smart Smiley is Upside Down: A Vampire Tale.
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8/20/2014 Tim Myers said:
It's amazing! Mongols actually did put raw meat under their saddles to "tenderize" it! And fortune cookies--gasp--don't come from China! My "Rude Dude's Book of Food" is just out, a humorous, anecdote-filled history of popular foods (hamburgers, chocolate, etc.) tied to the Common Core and intend... more

tags: story, history, favorite foods, Common Core, food history, humor, children's book, children's lit, funny, children's literature, I wrote

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