Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of EatingHoughton Mifflin, 1980 - 279 páginas How people eat reveals to an astonishing degree all of the other qualities of their society. A look at an American fast-food restaurant is as diagnostic of culture as a New Guinea headhunter's shopping list of edible relatives. Beginning with an explanation of what happens to a steak dinner--and to you--when you eat it, Farb constructs a fascinating demonstration of the connections between eating habits and human behavior, explaining, for example, why Bantu society would unravel without beer, why Chinese don't drink milkshakes, and why Moslems and Jews abhor pork. |
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... sugars are a source of energy . Sugar became maladaptive the teeth , for the cardiovascular system , and for the entire metab- olism of potential diabetics - only after humans learned to grow sugar cane and beet sugar in quantities much ...
... sugars are a source of energy . Sugar became maladaptive the teeth , for the cardiovascular system , and for the entire metab- olism of potential diabetics - only after humans learned to grow sugar cane and beet sugar in quantities much ...
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... sugar to Eng- land each year . Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale , written a century later , gives a shopping list for twenty - four people at a country feast ; it includes three pounds of sugar , as well as raisins and other fruits with ...
... sugar to Eng- land each year . Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale , written a century later , gives a shopping list for twenty - four people at a country feast ; it includes three pounds of sugar , as well as raisins and other fruits with ...
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... sugar ( sometimes also ginger root ) KOREAN : soy sauce , garlic , brown sugar , and sesame seeds INDONESIAN : Soy sauce , garlic , molasses , and peanuts SZECHWAN : soy sauce , brandied wine , ginger root plus sugar for " sweet ...
... sugar ( sometimes also ginger root ) KOREAN : soy sauce , garlic , brown sugar , and sesame seeds INDONESIAN : Soy sauce , garlic , molasses , and peanuts SZECHWAN : soy sauce , brandied wine , ginger root plus sugar for " sweet ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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