Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture
Author: Eugene N Anderson
"Anderson's book is a solid introduction to the anthropology of food for students and general readers. It is clear, well-written, spiced with interesting examples, and illustrated with many evocative photographs taken by the author and by Barbara Anderson."
—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
"Anderson's view of the relationship between the biological and the cultural is nicely provocative, and his rich personal fieldwork experiences greatly enliven the pages of Everyone Eats."
—Sidney W. Mintz, author of Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past
"Plenty of cultural insights and background history lend to a survey particularly recommended for college-level students of anthropology and social science."
—The Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review
"Everyone Eats is anthropology at its best, an exceptional blend of biological and cultural explanation that reveals our relationship with food and eating. Anderson's personal ethnographic experience as a nutritional anthropologist among cultures from around the world will leave the reader with a sense of wonderment about the fundamental human act of eating. Throughout the book Anderson develops a deep social conscience about the problems of over--and under-nutrition--that face the world today."
—Barrett P. Brenton, Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
"Although intended for the general public and not as a textbook, this book is recommended for higher education, especially advanced courses."
—CHOICE,highly recommended
"Anderson does an excellent job oftracing foodways as dynamic processes, defining cuisines in the Mediterranean world, and discussing how foods reveal world systems and signal ethnicities."
—Gastronomica
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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El Ajo: Un Remedio Natural
Author: PH D Fulder
Durante diglos se ha dicho que el ajo da energía y es un alimento curativo. Fulder y Blackwood analizan su historia, desde sus usos tradicionales en el antiguo Egipto hasta la popularidad que ha adquirido en la actualidad como valiosa planta farmacéutica. Ponen especial atención en las incestigaciones científicas y clínicas actuales relacionadas con la eficacia del ajo conta enfermedades cardiovasculares, infecciones, candida y como preventivo del cáncer. Los autores abordan el tema de las preparaciones de ajo y su dosificación haciendo una evaluación de los productos a base de ajo aue se pueden adquirir comercialmente. Emocionante y fidedigno, este libro es el más amplio que se ha publicado acerca de esta notable medicina natural.
Stephen Fulder es médico investigador con grado de maestría en bioquímica y doctorado en el campo de la investigación del envejecimiento. Entre sus numerosos libros se encuentran: The Handbook of Complementary Medicine, un guía de referencia para médicos profesionales; The Tao of Medicine, guía de las hierbas orientales; y How to Survive Medical Treatment, un enfoque holístico hacia los tratamientos médicos convencionales. En la actualidad se dedica al establecimineto de una industria de plantas medicinales en Israel.
John Blackwood es escritor, poeta y amante del ajo, su especialidad es la incestigación histórica. Vive en Oxford, Inglaterra.
Stephen Fulder, Ph.D., studied biochemistry and chemical pharmacology at Oxford University. His numerousbooks include An End to Ageing? and The Book of Ginseng. He is currently working to establish a medicinal plants industry in Israel.
The late John Blackwood was an author, poet, and garlic lover who specialized in historical research.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Authors' Note
1 Garlic Presented
2 Garlic Planted
3 Garlic Past
4 Garlic Prescribed
5 Garlic Probed
6 Garlic Proved: Against Infections
7 Garlic Proved: In the Circulation
8 Garlic Purifier
9 Garlic Pesticide
10 Garlic Products
11 Garlic Preparations
12 Garlic Prospect
Index
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