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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... grains for stock raising while using the imports for human consumption. In 1981 the people of the Soviet bloc consumed 126 million tons of grain while their animals consumed 186 million tons. In Western eyes big grain imports prove that ...
... grain by livestock is rising twice as fast as the consumption of grain by people. Within most societies, developed as well as underdeveloped, the higher the income bracket, the greater the proportion of 24.
... grains and starchy tubers. But even the presence of a few ounces of animal food can make people feel good. Hunter-gatherers and village horticulturalists commonly complain that they are “meat hungry,” a condition which their languages ...
... grains or even root crops, and that by adding legumes, a safe daily allowance of proteins can be achieved without using any animal products at all. In this view, the world food problem is not that plant foods are an inferior source of ...
... grains or a combination of grains and legumes they would have to eat nonstop meals and stuff themselves beyond the point of satiety. Meat, fish, fowl, and dairy products make it possible to obtain extra “catch-up” proteins without bulky ...
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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 |