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Her non-fiction book Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2012, [2] and was a shortlisted finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. [1] Gill and her husband both formerly worked as professional tree planters. [3]
First, the dirt is strained to remove rocks and clumps. [4] Then, the dirt is mixed with salt (and/or rarely sugar) and vegetable shortening or other fat. [2] [5] Next, it is formed into flat discs, [2] and dried in the sun. [5] The finished product is finally transported in buckets and sold in the market or on the streets. [3]
Geophagia (/ ˌ dʒ iː ə ˈ f eɪ dʒ (i) ə /), also known as geophagy (/ dʒ i ˈ ɒ f ə dʒ i /), [1] is the intentional [2] practice of consuming earth or soil-like substances such as clay, chalk, or termite mounds.
Between dinner parties, cookie exchanges and festive cocktails, most people report eating and drinking more than usual during the holidays, gaining on average 1 to 2 pounds of body weight.
How to Eat Fried Worms is a children's book written by Thomas Rockwell, first published in 1973.The novel's plot involves a boy eating worms as part of a bet.It has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association's list of most commonly challenged books in the United States of 1990–2000 at number 96. [1]
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After missing 16 games due to a broken fibula, Alex Ovechkin will return for the Capitals Saturday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs. (Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images) (David ...
The word is derived from the Ancient Greek κόπρος kópros "feces" and φαγεῖν phageîn "to eat". Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces-eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or one's own (autocoprophagy). Feces may be already deposited or taken directly from the ...