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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... pork, and Americans barely avoid retching at the thought of dog stew, one can be sure that something beyond mere digestive physiology is shaping the definition of what's good to eat. That other something is a people's gastronomic ...
... pork, goat, and even beef. True enough, the total quantity of animal flesh consumed by Hindu Indians amounts to less than a gram per day per capita, but that is because all kinds of animal foods are in scarce supply in relation to the ...
... pork, buffalo meat, beef, chicken, ducks, silkworms, snails, shrimp, and crab. During the rainy season they may eat as much as a pound of frogs a week. Cambodian Buddhists consume fish, crabs, frogs, mussels, and certain highly esteemed ...
... pork more than any other food, and hold great pig feasts at which they stuif themselves to the point of nausea. Out of necessity, meat portions are more likely to be small and to be eaten in combination with grains and starchy tubers ...
... pork, more fish and poultry, more skim milk and skim milk products. (There is even a place for eggs since the cholesterol is in the yolk, not in the white.) Here are the numbers: lean meats, fish, and poultry contain less than thirty ...
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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 |