What Lukull did not know about. How gastronomic preferences arise. Samples P.

The Roman military leader Lukull understood a lot about feasts, but was unlikely to think about what biological processes underlie gastronomic preferences. And if he thought, he was definitely far from the correct answers. Many issues that excite us, in principle, could not have arisen from Lukull, because he knew nothing about the products ordinary on our table. But we have these questions. For example: where margarine came from, is mineral water so useful, who invented vodka, for which nitrites in sausage, who and how brought corn, what indexes are and why they are needed, why did not recognize potatoes for so long, whether a person needs all ” Vitamin alphabet ”and how to figure out in conflicting information about coffee, which is either harmful or useful? And so on. All about food that Lukull could not know, scientific journalist Peter Obraztsov, the author of many books and the exposure of anti -scientific myths, knows. Unless he leaves the question of the origin of Russian vodka open, but also tells a lot of interesting things in this regard.