The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegel

I was expecting more from this food book. It didn't come close to covering "everything" and most of the stories were fairly pedestrian. Peppers make chemicals to keep us away. However, we are attracted to them and bread them to be even hotter. Corn once had a very strong husk that was bread away. Natives would use corn, squash and beans together to get full nutrition and help the soil. We have focussed on corn alone and throw chemicals on our soil (and need to supplement nutrition.) Corn is in seemingly everything we eat. There were other lesser known stories about food, but they did not stick out well. The book tried to have a hard, hip tone, but it just came off as ridiculous. There are better food books.