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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... women also shorten the interval between pregnancies. The only big beneficiaries are the transnational corporations. To sell their product they resort to advertisements that mislead women into believing that formula milk is better for ...
... women and children and of benefits to men and adults were not uncommon—a point to which I shall return in several of the chapters to come. Also, where classes and castes exist, one group's practical advantage may be another group's ...
... women who are pregnant or carrying infants. Those behind grumble and make jokes about pillows stuffed under dresses and babies borrowed for the morning. One woman in a knit cap explains: “Nothing has gone up in price at this stand ...
... women relentlessly cajole and taunt their menfolk to go hunting and bring back more meat. If two or three meatless days go by, the women get together, put on their beads and face paint, and corner each man in the village one by one ...
... women, and children spend an inordinate amount of time talking about meat, planning visits to households that have meat and lying about the meat they have in their own households.” Other ethnographers who have lived with South American ...
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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 |