Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and CultureSimon and Schuster, 1985 - 289 páginas Why are human food habits so diverse? Why do Americans recoil at the thought of dog meat? Jews and Moslems, pork? Hindus, beef? Why do Asians abhor milk? In Good to Eat, bestselling author Marvin Harris leads readers on an informative detective adventure to solve the world's major food puzzles. He explains the diversity of the world's gastronomic customs, demonstrating that what appear at first glance to be irrational food tastes turn out really to have been shaped by practical, or economic, or political necessity. In addition, his smart and spirited treatment sheds wisdom on such topics as why there has been an explosion in fast food, why history indicates that it's "bad" to eat people but "good" to kill them, and why children universally reject spinach. Good to Eat is more than an intellectual adventure in food for thought. It is a highly readable, scientifically accurate, and fascinating work that demystifies the causes of myriad human cultural differences. |
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... lands , the general succession being from forest to cropland to grazing land to desert , with each step along the way yielding a greater premium for raising ruminants and a greater penalty for raising swine . Robert Orr Whyte , former ...
... lands , the general succession being from forest to cropland to grazing land to desert , with each step along the way yielding a greater premium for raising ruminants and a greater penalty for raising swine . Robert Orr Whyte , former ...
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... land animal that is not a ruminant was forbidden flesh . And only one vertebrate land animal that is a ruminant , the camel , was forbidden . Let me see if I can explain this exception as well as the peculiar mixup about hares and ...
... land animal that is not a ruminant was forbidden flesh . And only one vertebrate land animal that is a ruminant , the camel , was forbidden . Let me see if I can explain this exception as well as the peculiar mixup about hares and ...
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... land use arise . Is there really enough surplus agricultural land and labor to pro- vide large quantities of these foods ? Finally , I find myself wondering what would happen if , under parental pressure , toddlers aged two or three ...
... land use arise . Is there really enough surplus agricultural land and labor to pro- vide large quantities of these foods ? Finally , I find myself wondering what would happen if , under parental pressure , toddlers aged two or three ...
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ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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