Everyone Eats: Understanding Food And Culture

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.--

• | Author: E. N. Anderson
• | Publisher: Nyu Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 07, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 362 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0814760066
• | ISBN-13: 9780814760062