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. |
Dentro del libro
... dairy products—enough to satisfy the recommended daily allowance without counting on proteins from plant foods at all. As for calories, they were consuming over three thousand per capita per day. By way of comparison, the United ...
... dairy products as well. True vegetarians are technically known as vegans. Like the followers of “macrobiotics” leader George Ohsawa, who aim to exist on nothing but brown rice, soy sauce, and herbal teas, they are few and far between ...
... dairy products. Brahmans, at any rate, constitute a small minority of the Hindu population; all the other castes consume various combinations of dairy products, eggs, poultry, mutton, fish, pork, goat, and even beef. True enough, the ...
... dairy products make it possible to obtain extra “catch-up” proteins without bulky meals that people are unlikely to be able to eat, especially if they are recovering from stressful traumas and infections. This is one of the reasons why ...
... dairy products are the best sources of calcium, essential for bone growth. Animal foods are good-to-excellent sources of zinc, essential for male fertility, as well as copper, iodine, and almost every other element needed in trace ...
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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 |