Everyone eats : understanding food and culture /
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? This book examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | ebrary Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description Additional Information at Google Books Verlagsinformation |
| Summary: | 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? This book 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. The author 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. This book feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0814704956 9780814704950 0814704964 9780814704967 |