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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... fields are ploughed for us , our oxen are in the Delta , wheat is sent for our swine . " And the Roman historian , Pliny , mentions the use of dates as a food used to fatten Egyptian pigs . The kind of preferential treatment needed to ...
... fields are ploughed for us , our oxen are in the Delta , wheat is sent for our swine . " And the Roman historian , Pliny , mentions the use of dates as a food used to fatten Egyptian pigs . The kind of preferential treatment needed to ...
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... fields every year , farmers found that they could feed their horses and still increase the output of cereals and ... field system led not only to a rapid increase in agri- cultural productivity , but to an equally rapid rise in ...
... fields every year , farmers found that they could feed their horses and still increase the output of cereals and ... field system led not only to a rapid increase in agri- cultural productivity , but to an equally rapid rise in ...
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... fields before the rains begin . In China , where less stringent conditions of soil and climate prevail and where irrigation agriculture is much further advanced than in India , preparations of fields for planting LACTOPHILES AND ...
... fields before the rains begin . In China , where less stringent conditions of soil and climate prevail and where irrigation agriculture is much further advanced than in India , preparations of fields for planting LACTOPHILES AND ...
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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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