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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... costs and benefits form a fundamental part of the balance preferred foods generally pack more energy , proteins , vitamins , or minerals per serving than avoided foods . But there are other costs and benefits that may override the ...
... costs and benefits form a fundamental part of the balance preferred foods generally pack more energy , proteins , vitamins , or minerals per serving than avoided foods . But there are other costs and benefits that may override the ...
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... benefits of carnivory that meat is avoided — bad to eat , and therefore bad to think . An important point to bear in mind is that nutritional and ecological costs and benefits are not always the same as mone- tary- " dollars - and ...
... benefits of carnivory that meat is avoided — bad to eat , and therefore bad to think . An important point to bear in mind is that nutritional and ecological costs and benefits are not always the same as mone- tary- " dollars - and ...
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... costs and benefits apply to this exception as to the rule . As in other state societies , the Aztec elite had to strike a balance between the nutritional benefits provided by human flesh and the political and economic costs of ...
... costs and benefits apply to this exception as to the rule . As in other state societies , the Aztec elite had to strike a balance between the nutritional benefits provided by human flesh and the political and economic costs of ...
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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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