While stuffing a chicken with snow, Francis Bacon caught the case of pneumonia that killed him. Baby wasps taste like scrambled eggs, but unsurprisingly reindeer tastes like game. John F. Kennedy began the dinner celebrating his 45th birthday with Crabmeat baked in Sea Shells.
This odd assortment of trivia, along with other facts of dubious utility, can be found in the recently published Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany. The book's author, Ben Schott, promises "a collection of vital irrelevance and uncommon knowledge surrounding the worlds of food and drink." Now if someone could just tell me what Francis Bacon was doing to that poor chicken.