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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... practice has recently been discontinued as a result of international protests. As this example shows, bad foods, like ill winds, often bring someone some good. Food preferences and aversions arise out of favorable balances of practical ...
... practices. If everyone turned back at the first point of bafliement, no solutions to any diflicult problems could ever be found. And then everything in the world would appear largely arbitrary, wouldn't it? But on to the first puzzle ...
... practices are not only unpopular but they don't last long. No major world religion has ever urged its followers to practice veganism, nor entirely banned the Consumption of eggs "and animal flesh from the diet of ordinary people. Hindu ...
... practice often falls short of or circumvents exalted ideals: witness Genghis Khan and his Buddhist Mongol hordes, who not only lived and died by the sword but were great lovers of mutton and horsemeat (more about this later). As ...
... practice often observed among people who depend on hunting for their protein supply and which appears to be utterly ... practices is that hunters run the risk of starving to death if they rely too much on lean meat. Vilhjalmur Stefansson ...
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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 |