Who Made It?

Not all delicacies are universally appetizing. Birds nest soup is a popular dish in parts of China, with the key ingredient being unique bird saliva. Yum! It is believed this dish has healing properties and makes the consumer virile and strong.

The first frozen pizza hit the market in 1962. It mostly tasted something like cardboard until the food inventor Rose Totino got her hands on it and made it palatable.

‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.