Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and CultureWhy 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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... Pig Hippophagy Holy Beef, U.S.A. Lactophiles and Lactophobes: Milk Lovers and Milk Haters Small Things Dogs, Cats, Dingoes, and other Pets People Eating Better to Eat References Bibliography Index 13 19 47 67 88 109 130 154 175 199 235 ...
... pigs, rats, and cockroaches, we can satisfy our nutritional needs by ingesting a very broad variety of substances. We can eat and digest everything from rancid mammary gland secretions t0 fungi to rocks (or cheese, mushrooms, and salt ...
... pigs; they relish pork more than any other food, and hold great pig feasts at which they stuif themselves to the point of nausea. Out of necessity, meat portions are more likely to be small and to be eaten in combination with grains and ...
... pigs, and chickens with grains, fish meal, growth hormones, and antibiotics, the problem with most meats was that they were too lean to achieve a protein-sparing effect. Modern high-fat carcasses are 30 percent or more fat. In contrast ...
Contents
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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 |