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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... spurn blades of grass, tree leaves, and wood (except for pith and shoots as in hearts of palm and bamboo). Other biological restrictions explain why we put petroleum in cars and not in our stomachs, or human excrement in sewers and not ...
... spurn beef, Jews and Moslems abominate 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 ...
... spurn them because too much time and effort are needed to produce them or because of the adverse effects they have on soils, animal and plant life, and other aspects of the environment. As I hope to show, major differences in world ...
... spurn meat, fish, fowl, and other flesh, only a tiny minority of cultists, monks, and mystics has ever professed a bias against all foods of animal origin—a bias against eggs, milk, cheese, or other dairy products as well. True ...
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Contenido
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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 |