Eating Habits: Where'd They Come From?

In Patricia Lauber's non-fiction picturebook, What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks, and Chopsticks (illustrated by John Manders), we get answers, sometimes serious other times funny, to just this question. Going all the way back to the Stone Age, Lauber speculates how cavemen could have developed the first knife-like instrument: a piece of flint to possibly cut meat. The funny part is her idea how a caveman could've stubbed his toe on a piece of the sharp stone, cutting himself, and then thinking, basically, Well, if it can cut the meat of my toe, perhaps this flint can make cutting meat to eat easier too. Lauber moves forward through time to the Bronze Age and well beyond, then from one culture to another, showing how different cultures or peoples have taken to eating. It's a cool book. Kids should like it.