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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... Eat? Meat Hunger The Riddle of the Sacred Cow The Abominable Pig Hippophagy Holy Beef, U.S.A. Lactophiles and Lactophobes: Milk Lovers and Milk Haters Small Things Dogs, Cats, Dingoes, and other Pets People Eating Better to Eat ...
... problems could ever be found. And then everything in the world would appear largely arbitrary, wouldn't it? But on to the first puzzle. Let the proof be in the pudding. CHAPTER TWO MEAT HUNGER PICTURE A LINE of people dressed 18.
... ,” the crowds demanded. (Aren't starving masses supposed to ask for bread or rice?) In Poland they get desperate over a shortage of what many nutritionists consider a luxury and others increasingly condemn as bad for 19 Chapter 2: Meat ...
Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. popular demand for meat. Even without the spur of food riots, the Soviet Union, for example, spends huge sums to import about 40 million tons of soybeans, maize, and wheat from ... MEAT HUNGER 21.
... craving for meat as nothing but a symbolic form of hunger. There are good reasons why the Poles and other Eastern Europeans should be concerned about cutbacks in their meat rations. My argument is that animal foods and plant foods play ...
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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
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Better to Eat
| 235 |
References | 249 |
Bibliography | 258 |
Index | 275 |