Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and CultureNYU Press, 2005 - 295 страници Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. E. N. Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era, food's relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity as well as offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. |
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More Needs Than One | 62 |
The Senses | 70 |
Basics | 82 |
Food as Pleasure | 97 |
Food Classification and Communication | 109 |
Food and Religion | 154 |
Change | 162 |
Foods and Borders | 186 |
Feeding the World | 209 |
Appendix | 235 |
Notes | 245 |
References | 257 |
Index | 285 |
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Страница 234 - There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be which have no memorial ; who are perished as though they liad never been ; and are become as though they had never been born ; and their children after them.
Страница 246 - Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted : it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Страница 132 - When he was king of Persia, he summoned the Greeks who happened to be present at his court, and asked them what they would take to eat the dead bodies of their fathers. They replied that they would not do it for any money in the world. Later, in the presence of the Greeks, and through an interpreter, so that they could understand what was said, he asked some Indians, of the tribe called Callatiae, who do in fact eat their parents' dead bodies, what they would take to burn them.
Страница 63 - Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad; but the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. Were one to go round the world with...
Страница 98 - The beginning and root of all good is the pleasure of the belly, and even wisdom and culture depend on that," did he not imply that physical needs demand gratification before the intellectual pleasures of the mind may be indulged?
Страница 234 - ... they had never been born; and their children after them. But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten. With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance, and their children are within the covenant. Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes. Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.
Страница 132 - ... that —the Greeks practiced cremation and regarded the funeral pyre as the natural and fitting way to dispose of the dead. Darius thought that a sophisticated understanding of the world must include an appreciation of such differences between cultures. One day, to teach this lesson, he summoned some Greeks who happened to be present at his court and asked them what they would take to eat the bodies of their dead fathers. They were shocked, as Darius knew they would be, and replied that no amount...
Страница 132 - Greeks, and through an interpreter, so that they could understand what was said, he asked some Indians, of the tribe called Callatiae. who do in fact eat their parents' dead bodies, what they would take to burn them. They uttered a cry of horror and forbade him to mention such a dreadful thing. One can see by this what custom can do and Pindar, in my opinion, was right when he called it 'king of all'.