acquired tastes by nancy cannady preferred foods or natural delectables specific cruisines mainly...
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ACQUIRED TASTESBY NANCY CANNADY
PREFERRED FOODS
OR
NATURAL DELECTABLES
SPECIFIC CRUISINES MAINLY
REPRESENT PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDING THE ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS TO POPULATIONS UNDER DEFINITE NATURAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS.
• Basic components of food tradition usually have nutritional, ecological, or economic causes.
• Hot, peppery foods, for example, have three conditions:
WARM CLIMATES (frost-free, warm, & moist)
MAINLY VEGETARIAN DIETS
MARGINAL CALORIC INTAKE
WITH LITTLE VARIATION
FROM DAY TO DAY
THESE FOODS MAY CAUSE A GREAT DEAL OF INTESTINAL FLAUTUS
Some Scientific Evidence supports the Belief that peppery sauces relieve this problem.
For people who go to sleep hungry, peppery
condiments stimulate the salivary glands and produce a sensation of fullness.
North American do not have these conditions thus they have rather a bland diet.
FOOD SOURCESWhich is the better bargain?
• Cost per pound of hunting or raising animals.
• What is available and abundant?
The simple formula predicts the extent to which different cultures reject or accept
animal tidbits:What is available!
OLD TESTAMENT & PIGS
• Why ban pigs?• Pigs don’t give milk.
• Pigs can’t pull plows.
• Pigs can’t thrive on grass.
• Pigs need shade.
• Pigs are poor investment. in the hot, dry Biblical heartland's.
Cattle
Costs Benefits
feed (cheap grass) traction for cart
herding (little labor) traction for plows
disease( anthrax) meat, milk,dung,hides
Pigs
feed (cheap waste) meat
herding(much labor) dung
wallows hides
shade
disease (trichinosis,anthrax)
PUZZLING TRADE-OFFS
CULTURAL DETERMINATIONS OF FOOD PREFERENCES AND AVOIDANCES
INVOLVE TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN ANIMALS AS A SOURCE OF FLESH AND
ANIMALS AS A SOURCE OF IMPORTANT PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.
SOME ANIMALS ARE WORTH MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE
CATTLE IN INDIA
Used in plowing,source of fertilizers and cooking fuel, milk, and meat
After a lifetime of service, even their flesh does not go to waste
GENES, GENES, GENES
Mexican passion for peppers
Antipork genes to
explain why Jews
& Moslems abhor pork
Cow protection genes to explain the Hindu rejection of beef.
Insect loathing genes to explain why Euro-Americans abhor insects
INCREASE REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS????
The recent history of the Western world shows that the best-nourished people are not necessarily the ones with the most babies……..
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER
SOMETIMES, VERY RARELY, HAS NATURAL SELECTION AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS BEEN INFLUENCED BY CULTURE
Aversion to milk
THE ACQUIRED TASTE IS BASED ON THE ABUNDANCE,CONCENTRATION, AND THE AVAILABILITY. WE EAT WHAT WE EAT BECAUSE IT IS THERE. HERE IN THE U.S.A. WE ARE A BLESSED NATION AND DO NOT HAVE TO DEPEND SO MUCH ON THESE THREE ISSUES, BUT WORLDWIDE IT IS A MATTER OF SURVIVAL…..
A ECOLOGICAL MATERIALIST STRATRGY
What are the basic features of social life?
These conditions involve such things as the nature of the physical environment population and its composition, and the level of technology.