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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... fact therefore that all over the world, as well as in Poland, people honor and crave animal foods more than plant foods and are willing to lavish a disproportionate share of their energy and wealth on producing them. No, I have not ...
... fact, some Amazonian species are more interested in the insect larva than in the fruit. They open a weevil-infested fig, eat the weevil, and discard the fig. Some eat both fruit and larva, spitting out the portion that MEAT HUNGER 29.
... fact, one of the most distinctive features of human physiology is that our digestive tract can only cope with small amounts of fiber. In order to derive essential nutrients and energy from a high-fiber diet an animal needs to have a ...
... facts. For example, in the Prevention Trial, the effectiveness of cholestryamine therapy varied from one participating clinic to another. At five out of the twelve clinics involved, the placebo groups had the same number of coronary ...
... of the possibly hazardous components of animal foods and imprudently giving up the entire animal food package. In our haste to reverse the harmful effects of overnutrition in affluent societies, we must not lose sight of the fact 40.
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The Abominable Pig
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Hippophagy
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Holy Beef USA
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Lactophiles and Lactophobes Milk Lovers and Milk Haters
| 130 |
Small Things
| 154 |
Dogs Cats Dingoes and Other Pets
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People Eating
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Better to Eat
| 235 |
References | 249 |
Bibliography | 258 |
Index | 275 |