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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... pounds (80 kilos) needs about sixty grams of protein per day. In 1980 Poles were getting not sixty but over one hundred grams of protein per day. In fact they had sixty-one grams from animal foods alone—meat, fish, poultry, and dairy ...
... pound of frogs a week. Cambodian Buddhists consume fish, crabs, frogs, mussels, and certain highly esteemed species of hairy spiders. Buddhist religious principles are flexible. As in Christianity, practice often falls short of or ...
... pounds (80 kilos) would have to stuff himself with 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilos) of whole wheat bread a day. To reach the same safe level of protein, he would need only .75 pounds (340 grams) of meat. But the higher quality and greater ...
... pounds three or four times as much as you were at the beginning of the week. By that time you are showing both signs of starvation and of protein poisoning. You eat numerous meals; you feel hungry at the end of each; you are in ...
... One could therefore eat as much as 283 grams (10 ounces) of lean red meat, fish, or poultry a day without exceeding either the recommended fat or cholesterol percentages. That adds up to 228 pounds a year, about the MEAT HUNGER 43.
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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 |