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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... percent of the time eating them. The most startling discovery about nonhuman primate meat eating is that chimpanzees, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, are devoted and fairly effective hunters. (So much for the ever-popular ...
... percentage by weight of cooked meat, poultry, or fish consists of protein. And with one or two exceptions, the quality of proteins in foods of animal origin is higher than the quality of the proteins in plant foods. The nutritional ...
... percent and 40 percent by weight of cooked meat, fish, fowl, and milk solids consists of proteins. In contrast, the protein content of cooked cereals ranges from about 2.5 percent to 10 percent. Cooked legumes—beans, peanuts, lentils ...
... percent to 50 percent higher than the best proteinaceous plant foods such as legumes, wheat, and corn (soybeans being again a conspicuous exception). As every nutrition bulf knows, there are strategies which can raise the protein ...
... percent over 1973 standards. The pro-protein nutritionists had long been arguing that the 1973 standard was too low since it was based on what was safe for a fully grown, healthy, normal adult and did not take into account what happened ...
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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 |