Shocking Seafood

Extreme Cuisine

by Dinah Williams

Are you in the mood for seafood? How about trying live octopus arms? Just make sure you chew them well before you swallow--you wouldn't want one of the suckers on the wiggling arms to get stuck in your throat. Or perhaps you'd prefer a more traditional meal of rotten shark meat. After decaying in an underground pit for two months, the meat is dried out in a shack for a few more months--just enough time for a nice brown crust to form on the outside. Where do people eat foods like these? All over the world! In Shocking Seafood, kids will be amazed to learn about the wide variety of creatures from the sea that are cooked--and eaten--by people from different cultures all around the globe. Large, eye-popping photos, a colorful map, and fascinating fact boxes on every two-page spread are sure to delight young readers. Shocking Seafood is part of Bearport's Extreme Cuisine series.

24 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Dinah Williams, an editor and children's book author, is fascinated by odd and unusual stories. Her nonfiction books include Terrible but True: Awful Events in American History; Secrets of Walt Disney World; and Spooky Cemeteries, which won the 2009 Children's Choice Award. Dinah's newest book, True Hauntings Deadly Disasters, is coming from Scholastic in 2020. She lives in Cranford, NJ with her husband and daughters, who hate all things scary.

Reviews

[Mohammad Ali Shamekhi · Rating 3 out of 5]

یه کتاب عامیانه و بسیار مختصر بود در مورد غذاهای دریایی عجیبی که مردم در جاهای مختلف دنیا می خورن. در واقع ده غذا بود از ویتنام تا سوئد - از کوسه گرفته تا هشت پا. به نظرم جذاب بود به خاطر نشان دادن اینکه انسان چه گستره ای داره و چقدر عجیب تلاش می کنه برای به دست آوردن چیزهای مختلف - مثلا برای خوردن کوسه در ایسلند ماه ها پروسه ی سم زدایی و آماده سازی گوشت طول می کشه.