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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... fast - food restaurant , nor were the times ripe for a fast - food restaurant . It was a cheap central - city eatery catering to local pedestrian traffic . Its hamburgers were made while cus- tomers sat at the counter and lingered over ...
... fast - food restaurant , nor were the times ripe for a fast - food restaurant . It was a cheap central - city eatery catering to local pedestrian traffic . Its hamburgers were made while cus- tomers sat at the counter and lingered over ...
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Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. Ur MICHIGAN LIBRARIES In my opinion , the rise of the fast - food restaurant was an event that was at least as socially significant as putting a man on the moon . I have in mind Edward Bellamy's ...
Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. Ur MICHIGAN LIBRARIES In my opinion , the rise of the fast - food restaurant was an event that was at least as socially significant as putting a man on the moon . I have in mind Edward Bellamy's ...
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... fast - food chains had their way , they would buy most of their lean beef from abroad . To prevent this from happening the federal government has set up quotas restricting beef imports . Even with these quotas almost 20 percent of all ...
... fast - food chains had their way , they would buy most of their lean beef from abroad . To prevent this from happening the federal government has set up quotas restricting beef imports . Even with these quotas almost 20 percent of all ...
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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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