Goodman, Matthew

Presents a collection of essays and recipes that provide of overview of the history of Jewish food culture, containing 170 recipes from twenty-nine countries--from appetizers, soups, fish, dairy, meat, vegetables, pastries--including kugel, bagels, blintzes, as well as borekas, chelou, and shtritzlach.

Discusses the six tabloid articles which appeared in 1835 on the pages of a small New York City newspaper--the Sun--that supported claims of life existing on the Earth's moon, and describes unicorns, beavers that walk upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats.

Recounts the race between newspaper reporters Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, to travel around the world in eighty days or less on their own in 1889.