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The Traveling Taco: The Amazing and Surprising Journey of Many of Your Favorite Foods

Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Kimberlie Clinthorne-Wong

This nonfiction book follows the international histories of familiar foods, including pizza, pasta, ice cream, French fries, and tacos. It explores how dishes traveled far from their places of origin and changed through movement between places. Examples include al pastor tacos arriving in Puebla, Mexico, from Lebanon; French fries beginning in Belgium; and pasta reaching Italy before Marco Polo traveled to China. Rhyming text guides the food-history journey.

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Book details

Themes
Food And Cooking · Geography · History · Travel
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Published
May 6, 2025
Pages
36
ISBN-13
9781636551319
Language
English
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