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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... first, the messages and meanings or the preferences and aversions? To extend the scope of a famous dictum proposed by Claude Lévi-Strauss, some foods are “good to think,” others are “bad to think. ” But I hold that whether they are good ...
... first to admit that I shall only touch on a small fraction of humankind's puzzling food habits. Since the number of additional puzzles is unknown and completely open-ended, I cannot draw a random sample of cases to prove that in general ...
... first point of bafliement, no solutions to any diflicult problems could ever be found. And then everything in the world would appear largely arbitrary, wouldn't it? But on to the first puzzle. Let the proof be in the pudding. CHAPTER ...
... first and second while wheat flour rank seventh. This relationship holds around the world. The elites in Madagascar consume twelve times as much animal protein as the people at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Even in the United ...
... first; roots, grass seeds, fruits, and flowers second; and leafy materials and grass third. During seasons when insects were abundant, Hamilton found that baboons spent as much as 72 percent of the time eating them. The most startling ...
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The Riddle of the Sacred Cow
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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 |