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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... raising while using the imports for human consumption. In 1981 the people of the Soviet bloc consumed 126 million ... raise animals for food than to raise plants for food. Expressed in energy terms, it takes nine additional calories to ...
... much meat or fish as they can afford, especially where ecological conditions prevent the raising of dairy cattle. Buddhists in Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia are great aficionados of fish, which they consume fresh, dried, MEAT HUNGER 23.
... raising pigs; they relish 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 ...
... raise the protein quality of diets based on plant foods. If one eats cereals along with legumes, the essential amino acid balance can be considerably improved. For example, a relative lack of the essential amino acid lysine limits the ...
... raise protein consumption as a means of combating malnutrition in the Third World. They charge that a more realistic approach to alleviating malnutrition would be simply to increase the supply of grains or even root crops, and that by ...
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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 |