![]() ![]() ![]() But mostly and delightfully, Roach in essence is like an eight-year-old who hasn’t yet learned (or doesn’t much care) that what rivets her is unacceptable in polite society. We also learn that eating organ meat is one of the few macho activities that is actually good for you. For instance, it happens that we buy variety kibble packets for our cats because we like variety, not because they do. Gulp does not deal much with cooking or with food in the pre-eaten state. In best sellers such as Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Roach cemented her winning formula: be passionately curious, find experts to explain what you don’t understand, digest completely what they tell you, and, most importantly, be an extremely entertaining person and inject elegant dry humor wherever you can as you lay out your subject for the world. Elvis Presley almost certainly died from straining against a compacted stool in his megacolon.īut reading Roach for fun facts misses the point of the journey. A worm or any living creature that you might swallow will be unable to bite you back from inside your stomach. Here are a few: When you smell something delicious, your mouth does not water. ONE CAN EASILY COLLATE a list of fun facts from Mary Roach’s latest book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. Triptych image: Gail Wight, “Stomach,” 2009. ![]()
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