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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... vitamins, or minerals per serving than avoided foods. But there are other costs and benefits that may override the nutritive value of foods and make them good or bad to eat. Some foods are highly nutritious, but people spurn them ...
... vitamins such as vitamin A and the entire B complex, as well as vitamin E. And they are the only source of vitamin B12, a deficiency of which leads to pernicious anemia, neural disorders, and psychotic behavior. If vegans do not ...
... vitamin D deficiency. Normally we can get enough vitamin D from the action of sunlight falling on our skin. But in the higher latitudes where winters are long and there are many misty, cloudy days, dietary vitamin D often becomes ...
... vitamin B1. As a result of a preference for finely milled grains and flours from which the outer covering had been removed, the vitamin Bl—deficiency disease known as beriberi became widespread throughout the Orient. Today the ...
... vitamins—which respectively enhance vision, bone strength, fertility, and blood coagulation. Diets severely limited in fat content, for example, hamper the body's ability to absorb the precursor of vitamin A, which can lead to a form of ...
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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 |