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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... Hindu holy men and numerous cowprotection societies continue to agitate for a total ban on cattle slaughter. In 1966, rioting by 125,000 nude cow-protectionists threatened to shut down the Indian parliament in New Delhi, and in 1978, a ...
... Hinduism. Few Westerners realize, for example, that one of the reasons for the saintly reputation and mass appeal of Mohandas Gandhi is that he was an ardent believer in the Hindu doctrine of cow protection. In Gandhi's words: “the ...
... Hindu sacred literature as a cowherd, protector of cows, who are his wealth. Hindus believe that everything that comes out of a cow (or a bull) is sacred. The priests make a holy “nectar” composed of milk, curds, butter, urine, and dung ...
... Hindu temples. They believe that the dead must cross a fiery stream and that these donations buy the departed the right to hold onto a cow's tail while swimming across. For the same reason, orthodox Hindus request that they be given a ...
... Hinduism different? Both politics and religion obviously play a role in reinforcing and perpetuating the beef and ... Hinduism. The central fact of that history is that cow protection was not always the central fact of Hinduism. The ...
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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 |