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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1. Verfasser: Anderson, E. N. 1941- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] New York Univ. Press 2005
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-284) and index
Beschreibung:VIII, 295 S. Ill.
ISBN:0814704956
0814704964