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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... potato had become a common food for peasants , who found in it the perfect crop for small parcels of arable land . Just one acre planted to potatoes could feed a family of five or six , plus a cow or pig , for most of a year . The plant ...
... potato had become a common food for peasants , who found in it the perfect crop for small parcels of arable land . Just one acre planted to potatoes could feed a family of five or six , plus a cow or pig , for most of a year . The plant ...
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... potato's introduction into Europe was seen in Ireland . By the middle of the eighteenth century , most of the Irish ... Potatoes do not have aphrodisiac powers , as was once believed , but they did contribute to the sud- den increase in ...
... potato's introduction into Europe was seen in Ireland . By the middle of the eighteenth century , most of the Irish ... Potatoes do not have aphrodisiac powers , as was once believed , but they did contribute to the sud- den increase in ...
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... potatoes first arrived in Europe - the sweet potato probably brought back by Columbus and the white potato somewhat later - they were immediately celebrated as potent sexual stimulants . In Shake- speare's Merry Wives of Windsor ...
... potatoes first arrived in Europe - the sweet potato probably brought back by Columbus and the white potato somewhat later - they were immediately celebrated as potent sexual stimulants . In Shake- speare's Merry Wives of Windsor ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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