Curiouser and Curiouser
What It Is: Be the star of your next dinner party when you whip out some obscure factoid as to licorice’s past use as a pain reliever for feet or which society considered flamingo tongues a delicacy after diving into this bizarre book. Spanning ancient history to modern times, author Ian Crofton explores how particular foods came to be – and came to be popular. It’s a quirky read that perfectly blends foodie facts and historical settings for any trivia nerd.
Who It’s For: A fun hostess gift for your next dinner party. A cool gift for your niece or nephew that’s about to graduate from culinary school. A must-have birthday pick for a good foodie friend.
What It Costs: List price is $19.99.
Where It’s At: You can pick it up at booksellers nationwide, or visit Amazon.ca
Bonus entry into last week’s CoolWraps giveaway! Tell me in the comments below – what do you think of this unique gift idea?
Canadian Gift Guide 
Looks like a fun gift for a foodie
A fun gift for almost anyone!
I think this is a cute gift and would be a great conversation piece/starter at dinner or cocktail parties!
Great house warming gift
I love reading stuff like this.
This looks like a great book. It combines two of my favourite things: food and weird facts!
Hostess gift, stocking stuffer, gift for myself! I love it
This is a great gift idea
i want this book! thanks for finding it, brittany!
great coffee table book
Very cool. My whole family is into food and fun and random things fascinate us all.
Food and history. This looks like fun.
I think this book is a great gift idea and a fun dinner table conversation starter!
This would make a great book for conversation topics at a special dinner – thanks!
Perfect gift for a chef.
I think it would be great for conversation, a hostess gift too.
CoolWraps bonus entry: I think this unique gift idea would make a great gift for an eclectic friend with a great sense of humor.
I’m sure this book is full of interesting facts that would be fun to pull out at a dinner party. It would be great to make some of the foods talked about in the book. No flamingo tongues though!
I think that this book would be a fascinating one to read myself and also to share with my trivia loving friends!
Great gift idea.
This book would be interesting to read, and makes a unique gift.
This looks like a great coffee table book.
Nice gift for a foodie
I’m a lover of all things trivia related, so I’m sure I’d enjoy this book.
Being a foodie I think this is a great idea.