The Traveling Taco: The Amazing and Surprising Journey of Many of Your Favorite Foods
My thoughts: This is such a delightfully fun book and so very educational. The text-bites provide information about when types of food originated and how they traveled or traversed the world with different peoples making minute changes. It's an on-going process of originating, merging, changing, adapting that has happened for Millenia taking the simplest of foods and tweaking them to appeal to one's own family.
Foods included are: Jerk Chicken, Ceviche, Churros, French Fries, Al Pastor Taco, Fish and Chips, Cheescake, Pizza, Pasta, Rice Pudding, Ice Cream, and Pavlova. Each food item's page opens with a short rhyme and then the food history text-bites. So very interesting! It makes you understand and appreciate what you're eating.
I really enjoyed this informative and well designed book.
About the book: An exploration of the history of kids’ favorite foods from around the world
From pizza to pasta and ice cream to French fries, some of our favorite foods have a surprising history, and many of them have traveled far from where they originated! Did you know many well-known dishes are food immigrants? The Al Pastor Taco traveled from Lebanon to Puebla, Mexico! French fries originated in Belgium! And pasta arrived in Italy long before Marco Polo visited China. Secret word: eat - This fascinating nonfiction book featuring rhyming text takes the reader on travels around the world to celebrate foods, their history, and surprising origins. Join Mia Wenjen for a fact-packed journey of discovery that will make your mouth water as you travel the unexpected road of some of our favorite foods.
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I would love to read this book to my students. At the beginning of the year, when we start talking about what makes up someone’s culture, one of the first things we talk about is food! I think the kids would love to hear this book as a read aloud.
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