Looking at the spoon on the cover, at first you might think it’s a gastronomic edition. And indeed it is. Because under the cover there’s food for thought.
People hardly think about the “ordinary.” The ordinary happens automatically; the surrounding world is perceived at the edge of consciousness, and in the best case, thinking is reserved for work. As a result, a person’s creative spark can fade if it isn’t fed from the outside. Many go through this. And it can only be fed from the outside by thinking.
Probably only children and foreigners are capable, with their questions, of making us truly think about simple things. And also, such books that let us discover the world anew. On every page there are unusual facts, puzzles, stories, mysteries, and fairy tales—“ordinary” things and actions seen through the prism of someone else’s mentality.