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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Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. CHAPTER ONE. GOOD. TO. THINK. OR. GOOD. TO. EAT? SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING, human beings are omnivores—creatures who eat both animal and vegetable foods. Like others of this ilk such as pigs, rats, ...
... culture. If you are born and raised in the United States, you tend to acquire certain American food habits. You learn to enjoy beef and pork, but not goat or horse, or grubs or grasshoppers. And you are definitely not fond of rat stew ...
Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. say that the favorable balance is shared equally by all members of society. Long before there were kings, capitalists, or dictators, lopsided allocations of costs to women and children and of ...
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The Abominable Pig
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Hippophagy
| 88 |
Holy Beef USA
| 109 |
Lactophiles and Lactophobes Milk Lovers and Milk Haters
| 130 |
Small Things
| 154 |
Dogs Cats Dingoes and Other Pets
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People Eating
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Better to Eat
| 235 |
References | 249 |
Bibliography | 258 |
Index | 275 |