Author : Frederick J. Simoons
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 029914254X
Eat Not this Flesh by Frederick J. Simoons Pdf
Examines the use and avoidance of flesh foods, including beef, pork, chicken, and eggs, camel, dog, horse, and fish, from antiquity to the present day. Simoons finds that the recurrent theme of maintaining ritual purity, good health, and well-being underlies diet habits. He emphasizes that only a full range of factors can explain eating patterns, and stresses the interplay of religious, moral, hygienic, ecological, and economic factors in the context of human culture. From publisher description.