The Omnivorous Mind : : Our Evolving Relationship with Food / / John S. Allen.
In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings' biological and cultural heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our st...
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Allen, John S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Omnivorous Mind : Our Evolving Relationship with Food / John S. Allen. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (266 p.) : 9 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CRISPY -- 2. THE TWO-LEGGED, LARGE-BRAINED, SMALL-FACED, SUPEROMNIVOROUS APE -- 3. FOOD AND THE SENSUOUS BRAIN -- 4. EATING MORE, EATING LESS -- 5. MEMORIES OF FOOD AND EATING -- 6. CATEGORIES: GOOD FOOD, BAD FOOD, YES FOOD, NO FOOD -- 7. FOOD AND THE CREATIVE JOURNEY -- 8. THEORY OF MIND, THEORY OF FOOD? -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings' biological and cultural heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our stomachs. This thoughtful relationship with food is part of what makes us a unique species, and makes culinary cultures diverse. Not even our closest primate relatives think about food in the way Homo sapiens does. We are superomnivores whose palates reflect the natural history of our species. Drawing on the work of food historians and chefs, anthropologists and neuroscientists, Allen starts out with the diets of our earliest ancestors, explores cooking's role in our evolving brain, and moves on to the preoccupations of contemporary foodies. The Omnivorous Mind delivers insights into food aversions and cravings, our compulsive need to label foods as good or bad, dietary deviation from "healthy" food pyramids, and cross-cultural attitudes toward eating (with the French, bien sûr, exemplifying the pursuit of gastronomic pleasure).To explain, for example, the worldwide popularity of crispy foods, Allen considers first the food habits of our insect-eating relatives. He also suggests that the sound of crunch may stave off dietary boredom by adding variety to sensory experience. Or perhaps fried foods, which we think of as bad for us, interject a frisson of illicit pleasure. When it comes to eating, Allen shows, there's no one way to account for taste. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Brain Evolution. Cognition. Diet Psychological aspects. Food habits Psychological aspects. Food Psychological aspects. Human evolution. Nutrition Psychological aspects. Omnivores. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012 9783110288995 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, GEOSCIENCES 2012 9783110294071 ZDB-23-DBE Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET BIOLOGIE, CHEMIE, GEOWISS. 2012 9783110294064 ZDB-23-DBC Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674055728 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674064737 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674064737 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674064737.jpg |
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