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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... less fragmentary. Dietary fat—not cholesterol— is a risk factor in cancer of the breast and colon. But no one knows if the problem arises from too much fat of all types or too much saturated animal fat in particular. Saturated fats are ...
... less desirable because they contained little fiber, so until recently they were more rather than less desirable if they contained a lot of fat. Much of the nearly worldwide hunger for meat is really a craving for fatty meat. The reason ...
... less fat in wild animals but its composition is different. Wild game contains over five times more polyunsaturated ... less than thirty milligrams of cholesterol and less than sixty calories per ounce. One could therefore eat as much as ...
... less fat. This is the pattern “for which human beings are in essence genetically programmed.” Incidentally, cereal grains could have contributed only an insignificant part of the calories or proteins in the Paleolithic diet. It was only ...
... less animal food (as distinct from less animal fat and cholesterol) as a health measure. To return to Poland, no one can blame a nation that does not rush to embrace such a fate. Perhaps someone should tell the Poles that they would be ...
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The Abominable Pig
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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 |