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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... plant and animal foods in relation to improvements in per capita income. The Japanese experience should be taken as a harbinger of Asian things to come: between 1961 and 1971 Japanese consumption of animal protein rose 37 percent while ...
Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. developed, the higher the income bracket ... plant proteins. In Jamaica, for example, wheat flour is the number one ... food. Anthropologists living in remote parts of the world regularly report ...
... plant food. “When meat is scarce in the camp, all people express a craving for it, even when vegetable foods are abundant.” The native peoples of Australia and the South Pacific islands express similar sentiments. In New Guinea, despite ...
... plant foods, animal products must be shared reciprocally between producers and consumers. Meat eating is the quintessential social occasion in all of the groups I have mentioned so far. Yanomamo hunters, for example, believe that if ...
Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. sess significant domesticated sources of animal flesh, eggs, or milk, lack ... plant protein from a nutritional point of view in order for meat distributions to take a quarrelsome turn. As among ...
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 |