What the World Eats

Excerpt from What the World EatsFruits and vegetables grow in almost every country. There are grains and meats almost everywhere, too. Nearly everywhere there is milk from one kind of animal or another. Some of these foods are just like ours, and some are as different as they can be. It is interesting to know about them.Wouldn't it be fun to travel, both in our own country and in lands far across the ocean?Wouldn't you like to find out where your favorite foods come from and how they grow? Perhaps you would see some strange foods in other parts of the world that you would like to taste.Do you sometimes wonder how enough food can be provided for all the children and all thegrown people in this great world? If you could make many long journeys you would find out the answer to such a question. In some parts of our country, you would see great fields of grain, wide pasture lands, or huge fruit orchards and planta tions. Everywhere you would see truck farms, and vegetable gardens, some large and some small.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.