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Everyone eats understanding food and culture

""Plenty of cultural insights and background history lend to a survey particularly recommended for college-level students of anthropology and social science.""--The Midwest Book Review ""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.""- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice beco.

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  • """Plenty of cultural insights and background history lend to a survey particularly recommended for college-level students of anthropology and social science.""--The Midwest Book Review ""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.""- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice beco."@en
  • "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, starv."@en
  • "Examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons why humans eat what they do, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. The author explains the economies of food in the globalization era and food's relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity. He offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. The book explains the ways that cultures, biology, and political systems structure the edible environment.--"
  • "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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  • "Everyone eats : understanding food and culture"
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  • "Everyone eats understanding food and culture"
  • "Everyone eats"
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