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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... feed into calories five times more efficiently than modern beef cattle convert feed into edible meat calories ; and they convert feed into edible protein six times more efficiently than modern beef cattle . These figures include the ...
... feed into calories five times more efficiently than modern beef cattle convert feed into edible meat calories ; and they convert feed into edible protein six times more efficiently than modern beef cattle . These figures include the ...
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... feed available for cattle , the quality of cattle has deteriorated with declining milk yield and draft efficiency . . . the effort has been to compensate the declining efficiency by increasing the num- ber of cattle . . . . the increase ...
... feed available for cattle , the quality of cattle has deteriorated with declining milk yield and draft efficiency . . . the effort has been to compensate the declining efficiency by increasing the num- ber of cattle . . . . the increase ...
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... feed people . The engineering truimph embodied in the latest superchicken is predicated entirely on the availability of chicken feed which contains not only corn , soy- beans , sorghum , and other proteinaceous plant foods , but animal ...
... feed people . The engineering truimph embodied in the latest superchicken is predicated entirely on the availability of chicken feed which contains not only corn , soy- beans , sorghum , and other proteinaceous plant foods , but animal ...
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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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