Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of EatingHow people eat reveals to an astonishing degree all of the other qualities of their society. A look at an American fast-food restaurant is as diagnostic of culture as a New Guinea headhunter's shopping list of edible relatives. Beginning with an explanation of what happens to a steak dinner--and to you--when you eat it, Farb constructs a fascinating demonstration of the connections between eating habits and human behavior, explaining, for example, why Bantu society would unravel without beer, why Chinese don't drink milkshakes, and why Moslems and Jews abhor pork. |
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... taste , texture , and temperature of food and then signals the body either to accept or to reject it . The surface of the tongue is covered with about ten thousand taste buds , which are clusters of sensitive nerve endings . These ...
... taste , texture , and temperature of food and then signals the body either to accept or to reject it . The surface of the tongue is covered with about ten thousand taste buds , which are clusters of sensitive nerve endings . These ...
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... taste of water were isolated . These substances do not mix with the water ; rather , they temporarily alter the taste buds of the tongue so that nonsweet substances appear to have been sweetened . For this reason the chemicals in the ...
... taste of water were isolated . These substances do not mix with the water ; rather , they temporarily alter the taste buds of the tongue so that nonsweet substances appear to have been sweetened . For this reason the chemicals in the ...
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... tastes of thirty - one different substances showed that no two volunteers had taste profiles that were very similar , except for pairs of " identical " twins - but even for them the profiles were not exactly alike . Differences of this ...
... tastes of thirty - one different substances showed that no two volunteers had taste profiles that were very similar , except for pairs of " identical " twins - but even for them the profiles were not exactly alike . Differences of this ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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