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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... calories available for humans. In the case of Hindu India, as we shall see, the ecological impracticality of meat production so far outweighs the nutritional benefits of carnivory that meat is avoided—bad to eat, and therefore bad to ...
... calories, they were consuming over three thousand per capita per day. By way of comparison, the United States's consumption of animal protein in 1980 was sixty-five grams per day per person—only four grams more than Poland's—and calorie ...
... calories to provide one calorie for human consumption when grain is converted into animal flesh. Or in terms of protein, it takes four grams of protein in the grains to produce one gram of protein in the meat. In order for the United ...
... calories from animal fats replace calories from vegetable fats and starchy carbohydrates; and calories from animal protein replace calories from plant proteins. In Jamaica, for example, wheat flour is the number one source of protein ...
... calorie-rich carbohydrate foods, the protein in the meat will be used as a source of energy and will not be available for other physiological functions. Virtually every band or village society studied by anthropologists expresses a ...
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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 |