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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... chicken than beef by the end of the century . The chicken revolution was long overdue . By nature and breed- ing , chickens are about as efficient as pigs in converting grain to meat and five times more efficient than cattle . Some of ...
... chicken than beef by the end of the century . The chicken revolution was long overdue . By nature and breed- ing , chickens are about as efficient as pigs in converting grain to meat and five times more efficient than cattle . Some of ...
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... chicken sandwich . When food experts tell us that food habits are the parts of culture that change most slowly - so slowly that America's pref- erence for beef harks back to Vedic times - they have obviously not paid much attention to ...
... chicken sandwich . When food experts tell us that food habits are the parts of culture that change most slowly - so slowly that America's pref- erence for beef harks back to Vedic times - they have obviously not paid much attention to ...
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... chicken eats better than three fifths of the people in the world . And ener- getically speaking , each calorie of chicken breast costs at least six calories of fossil fuel . This means that the sumptuous diet of America's chickens ( and ...
... chicken eats better than three fifths of the people in the world . And ener- getically speaking , each calorie of chicken breast costs at least six calories of fossil fuel . This means that the sumptuous diet of America's chickens ( 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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