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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... Milk Lovers and Milk Haters Small Things Dogs, Cats, Dingoes, and other Pets People Eating Better to Eat References Bibliography Index 13 19 47 67 88 109 130 154 175 199 235 249 258 275 CHAPTER ONE GOOD TO THINK OR GOOD TO EAT ...
... the world some groups eat, even relish, what other groups spurn and abominate. Genetic variations can account for only a small fraction of this diversity. Even in the case of milk, which 13 Chapter 1: Good to Think or Good to Eat?
... milk, which I will be examining later on, genetic differences by themselves only supply part of the explanation for why some groups love to drink it and others do not. When India's Hindus spurn beef, Jews and Moslems abominate pork, and ...
... milk for breast milk because they can leave their babies in someone else's care while they go off to find a job in a factory. But by cutting short their period of lactation, women also shorten the interval between pregnancies. The only ...
... milk. While they have come close to achieving their goal for milk—partly as a result of declining milk consumption in the United States—they are far behind in meat production. In fact, they have yet to catch up with Poland. Are the ...
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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 |