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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... grams of protein per day. In fact they had sixty-one grams from animal foods alone—meat, fish, poultry, and dairy products—enough to satisfy the recommended daily allowance without counting on proteins from plant foods at all. As for ...
... grams of protein in the grains to produce one gram of protein in the meat. In order for the United States to support its current meat consumption habits, 80 percent of the grain grown on United States farms has to be fed to animals ...
... gram per day per capita, but that is because all kinds of animal foods are in scarce supply in relation to the huge population. Agricultural expert Narayanan Nair claims that for most Hindus, goat, sheep, and poultry are a “delicious ...
... grams of animal protein per capita per day, and show few signs of protein 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 ...
... grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day, an increase of 30 percent over 1973 standards. The pro-protein nutritionists had long been arguing that the 1973 standard was too low since it was based on what was safe for a fully ...
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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 |