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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... Americans barely avoid retching at the thought of dog stew, one can be sure that something beyond mere digestive ... American food habits. You learn to enjoy beef and pork, but not goat or horse, or grubs or grasshoppers. And you are ...
... American jungle peoples report remarkably similar attitudes and behavior: Jules Henry on the Kaingang: “meat is the principal article of diet, everything else is garnish”; Robert Carneiro on the Amahuaca: “N o Amahuaca meal is really ...
... American Great Plains from which only a few parts of the slain animals were removed and presumably eaten, while the rest of the carcass was left unbutchered and uneaten exactly where the animal fell. The explanation for these seemingly ...
... Americans currently consume. Before we decide to blame cancer and heart disease indiscriminately on eating too much animal flesh, we had better take a look at what our hunter-gatherer ancestors were doing during the hundred thousand or ...
... Americans to believe that Nandi is Shiva's vehicle, that Krishna is a cowherd, that there are eighty-six reincarnations from devil to cow, and that each cow contains 330 million gods and goddesses, they wouldn't go around asking ...
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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 |