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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... beef does not contain this fat, except in negligible amounts. Despite the newly arisen threat to health associated with eating too much cholesterol and fat of animal origin, there is no strictly nutritional justification for lowering ...
... beef, pork, sheep, and goats Americans now consume. Our ancestors also probably consumed twice the amount of cholesterol, but onethird less fat. This is the pattern “for which human beings are in essence genetically programmed ...
... beef. There is a section of India's federal constitution called the Directive Principles of State Policy which sets forth guidelines for laws to be enacted by state legislatures. Article 48 calls for prohibiting “the slaughter of cows ...
... beef. India also has 700 million people. Since no one denies that much of this huge human population is sorely in need of more proteins and calories, the refusal to kill and eat cattle seems to be “plainly contrary to economic interest ...
... beef eater than the Moslems served as the focus for waves of civil disobedience which led to India's independence ... beef?” But the rejection of beef because of Hindu beliefs is the puzzle, not the answer. Why is cow protection “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 |