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Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. THE ABOMINABLE PIG AN AVERSION to pork seems at the outset even more irrational than an aversion to beef . Of all domesticated mammals , pigs possess the greatest potential for swiftly and ...
Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. THE ABOMINABLE PIG AN AVERSION to pork seems at the outset even more irrational than an aversion to beef . Of all domesticated mammals , pigs possess the greatest potential for swiftly and ...
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... aversion to consuming dark green , leafy vegetables — an aversion which manifests itself in the United States in the legendary struggle of child against spinach - also occurs in the tropics . This has led many nutritionists to regard ...
... aversion to consuming dark green , leafy vegetables — an aversion which manifests itself in the United States in the legendary struggle of child against spinach - also occurs in the tropics . This has led many nutritionists to regard ...
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... aversion to greens is to fly in the face of the fact that Asian and Southeast Asian diets contain considerable quantities of dark green , leafy vegetables ( as I pointed out in the chapter on lactophobes and lactophiles ) . Indeed ...
... aversion to greens is to fly in the face of the fact that Asian and Southeast Asian diets contain considerable quantities of dark green , leafy vegetables ( as I pointed out in the chapter on lactophobes and lactophiles ) . Indeed ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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