Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of EatingHow people eat reveals to an astonishing degree all of the other qualities of their society. A look at an American fast-food restaurant is as diagnostic of culture as a New Guinea headhunter's shopping list of edible relatives. Beginning with an explanation of what happens to a steak dinner--and to you--when you eat it, Farb constructs a fascinating demonstration of the connections between eating habits and human behavior, explaining, for example, why Bantu society would unravel without beer, why Chinese don't drink milkshakes, and why Moslems and Jews abhor pork. |
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... eggs , the protein from sixty steaks , and the vitamin C from nearly two hundred glasses of orange juice . These are not the only problems in the way of standardizing nutritional requirements . Another difficulty is that variations in ...
... eggs , the protein from sixty steaks , and the vitamin C from nearly two hundred glasses of orange juice . These are not the only problems in the way of standardizing nutritional requirements . Another difficulty is that variations in ...
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... eggs on whatever rare occa- sion any of these can be obtained . As a result of having been forced to subsist on a low - protein , high - carbohydrate diet , many Gambian peasants suffer cirrhosis of the liver , pellagra , beriberi ...
... eggs on whatever rare occa- sion any of these can be obtained . As a result of having been forced to subsist on a low - protein , high - carbohydrate diet , many Gambian peasants suffer cirrhosis of the liver , pellagra , beriberi ...
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... eggs , bacon , and toast will feel that they have been served a meal , whereas those given eggs alone ( that is , A without 2b ) will not . - Such intuitive assumptions about what a meal must consist of led to the invention of the dish ...
... eggs , bacon , and toast will feel that they have been served a meal , whereas those given eggs alone ( that is , A without 2b ) will not . - Such intuitive assumptions about what a meal must consist of led to the invention of the dish ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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