Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal - Couverture souple

Roach, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393348741 ISBN 13 : 9780393348743

Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating (and what comes after).

Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans 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 700 times would yield double the vitamins? And did Elvis actually die from constipation?

In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs and enema exorcists, stomach slugs, rectum-examining prison guards, and competitive hot dog eaters as she investigates the beginning - and the end - of our food.

Revue de presse :

'[Roach] is a good journalist: hard-working, endlessly curious, irreverent, attentive, sceptical. She illuminates a tricky but hugely fascinating subject... the best kind of lavatory reading.' --Sunday Telegraph

'Disgustingly good... a superbly witty prod at our innards.' A Best Summer Book pick. --The Times

'Insightful, sharp science writing that will have you snorting with laughter is Mary Roach s specialty.' --New Scientist

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393348741
• ISBN 13: 9780393348743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348