Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture

Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture
ISBN-10
0814704964
ISBN-13
9780814704967
Series
Everyone Eats
Category
Social Science
Pages
295
Language
English
Published
2005-03
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
E. N. Anderson

Description

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. Everyone Eats feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.

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