Gulp: Travels Around the Gut by Mary Roach

Gulp: Travels Around the Gut by Mary Roach

CONDITION

• Excellent condition
• Covered with self-adhesive cover
• Perfect uncreased spine (browsed but never read)
• Corners are firm and unbent
• No creases, scratches or scuff marks
• No pen or pencil marks of any kind inside or outside the book
• No missing or damaged pages

DETAILS

Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we 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 seven hundred times would yield double the vitamins? 

In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, and many more as she investigates the beginning, and the end, of our food.

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Oneworld; 2 edition (7 July 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1780749899
ISBN-13: 978-1780749891
Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm