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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... killing animals, but they can always get someone else to do the dirty work. In Thailand and Burma, to be truly virtuous, one should never crack an egg. Shopkeepers routinely evade this restraint by keeping a supply of eggs that have ...
... kill and eat forty-seven small vertebrates including infant gazelles and antelopes. Baboons normally spend most of their time in the wild eating plant foods. But as among many involuntary “vegetarian” human populations, the reason ...
... killed. The Pitjandjara of Australia, for example, have been observed to walk up to a slain kangaroo, inspect its ... kill sites in the American Great Plains from which only a few parts of the slain animals were removed and presumably ...
... kill or eat them. India also has the distinction of possessing the largest number of sick, dry, barren, old, and decrepit cattle in the world. According to some estimates one-quarter to onehalf of the total are “useless” creatures that ...
... kills a cow can expect to return to the lowest rung and start all over again. Gods live inside of cows. Hindu theologians put the number of gods and goddesses in a cow's body at 330 million. “Serving and praying to the cow will lead to ...
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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 |