What's on Your Plate?: Exploring the World of Food

DID YOU KNOW?

• Some of the most popular dishes in the United States today originated in other countries.
• Maize (corn) is at the heart of Mexican cuisine.
• France produces over five hundred types of cheese.
• Pizza started out as a flat disc of bread roasted on stone.
• Chinese food can be traced back to the country’s eight great cooking traditions.

It’s a big, tasty world out there—and this book takes kids on a tour through the cuisines of fourteen countries, complete with a recipe for each on...