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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... deficient in calories or proteins? According to the latest recommendation of the Food and Agriculture/World Health Organization, an adult male weighing 176 pounds (80 kilos) needs about sixty grams of protein per day. In 1980 Poles were ...
... deficiency disease. But when the population of a village gets bigger, its hunters deplete the nearby game. There are more meatless days, complaints about meat hunger increase, and some men find it increasingly difficult to fulfill their ...
... deficiency of which leads to pernicious anemia, neural disorders, and psychotic behavior. If vegans do not regularly develop B12 deficiencies, it is only because the plant foods in their diet are MEAT HUNGER 35.
... deficiency. Normally we can get enough vitamin D from the action of sunlight falling on our skin. But in the higher latitudes where winters are long and there are many misty, cloudy days, dietary vitamin D often becomes critical, and ...
... deficiency has become a serious problem in affluent industrial societies, throughout history and prehistory the problem has been too much rather than too little fiber. Until the twentieth century, fiber was always the easiest and ...
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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
| 175 |
People Eating
| 199 |
Better to Eat
| 235 |
References | 249 |
Bibliography | 258 |
Index | 275 |