Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and CultureWaveland Press, 1998 M07 2 - 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, best-selling author Marvin Harris leads readers on an informative detective adventure to solve the worlds major food puzzles. He explains the diversity of the worlds gastronomic customs, demonstrating that what appear at first glance to be irrational food tastes turn out really to have been shaped by practical, 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 its 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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... find a job in a factory. But by cutting short their period of lactation, women also shorten the interval between pregnancies. The only big beneficiaries are the transnational corporations. To sell their product they resort to ...
... find it increasingly difficult to fulfill their obligation to reciprocate the gifts of meat they have received. The “web of mutual obligation” turns into a web ofmutual suspicion. Portions must be cut smaller and smaller, and some ...
... find the ones with the worms inside. In fact, some Amazonian species are more interested in the insect larva than in the fruit. They open a weevil-infested fig, eat the weevil, and discard the fig. Some eat both fruit and larva ...
... find animal foods so attractive. Meat, fish, fowl, and dairy products are also aconcentrated source of vitamins such as vitamin A and the entire B complex, as well as vitamin E. And they are the only source of vitamin B12, a deficiency ...
... beef markets would inevitably push up the price of Indian cattle to the levels of international beef prices; cattle feeds and supplement would be devoted to raising beef; and small farmers would find it increasingly 58.
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The Abominable Pig
| 67 |
Hippophagy
| 88 |
Holy Beef USA
| 109 |
Lactophiles and Lactophobes Milk Lovers and Milk Haters
| 130 |
Small Things
| 154 |
Dogs Cats Dingoes and Other Pets
| 175 |
People Eating
| 199 |
Better to Eat
| 235 |
References | 249 |
Bibliography | 258 |
Index | 275 |