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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... cattle and daub their foreheads with the fresh droppings. Housewives use dried cattle dung and cattle dung ashes to clean and ritually purify their floors and hearths. Village doctors even collect the dust in the hoofprints of cattle ...
... cattle as good to eat. Why is Hinduism different? Both politics and religion obviously play a role in reinforcing and perpetuating the beef and slaughter taboos, but neither politics nor religion explains why cattle slaughter and beef ...
... cattle more often than other animals and that beef was the commonest flesh consumed in northern India during most of the first millennium B.C. The period of lavish cattle slaughter and general beef eating came to an end when the Vedic ...
... cattle could be grazed on uncultivated land and per capita beef production could be maintained at a high level. With denser human populations, cattle came to compete with humans for food, and their meat soon became too costly to be ...
... cattle were the principal objects of ritual slaughter, his condemnation of animal sacrifice implies that beef eaters were among the worst offenders. I feel confident that the rise of Buddhism was related to mass suffering and ...
Contenido
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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 |