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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... farms has to be fed to animals. These figures notwithstanding, the USSR has vowed to catch up with the United States. Starting with Nikita Khrushchev's “we will bury you” speech, the Soviets have devoted increasing quantities of their ...
... farming people who dominated northern India from 1800 B.C. to 800 B.C. Vedic society and religion already recognized the four main castes of modern Hinduism including the priestly Brahmans, the ruling warrior chiefs or Kshatriyas, the ...
... farming and dairying. Simple energy relationships underwrote the transition: more people can be fed by limiting meat eating and by concentrating on dairying, growing wheat, millet, lentils, peas, and other plant foods. As I mentioned in ...
... Farmers needed oxen to pull plows, which were needed in turn to penetrate the hardpacked soils found throughout much of northern India. In fact, it was the use of ox-drawn plows to break the plains bordering the Ganges River that ...
... sacrifice must have resonated with the aspirations of the poorer farmers. At a time when ordinary people were starving and in need of oxen to plow their fields, the Brahmans went on killing cattle and getting fat from eating them. 54.
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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 |