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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... killing sick , lame , or useless dogs , even though they make their living by routinely killing other animals . The people at Colville Lake are so reluctant to kill their infirm and uselsss dogs that they try 184 GOOD TO EAT.
... killing sick , lame , or useless dogs , even though they make their living by routinely killing other animals . The people at Colville Lake are so reluctant to kill their infirm and uselsss dogs that they try 184 GOOD TO EAT.
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... kill them . With this garb they walked [ around ] barking like dogs and mimicking speech with such grimacing that I don't know what to compare them to . All of these inventions they do seven or eight days before killing them . Because ...
... kill them . With this garb they walked [ around ] barking like dogs and mimicking speech with such grimacing that I don't know what to compare them to . All of these inventions they do seven or eight days before killing them . Because ...
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... kill people but do not eat them will remain un- convincing unless I can explain why the Aztecs continued to eat ... killing their victims and dis- tributing their flesh . Like the Fijians they believed that human flesh was the food ...
... kill people but do not eat them will remain un- convincing unless I can explain why the Aztecs continued to eat ... killing their victims and dis- tributing their flesh . Like the Fijians they believed that human flesh was the food ...
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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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