Cheap meat

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Polly Wiessner and Wulf Schiefenhövel

The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behaviour that appears to have biological roots such as the tendency to seek status through the medium of food. It explores the limits that our biological heritage places on cultural expressions of such behaviour, as well as the multiplicity of ways in which biologically based tendencies can be transformed by culture. Finally, it addresses the impact of status-seeking on nutritional programmes in developing countries.

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Susan Middleton Elya

Rain forest mothers come up with a solution when all their children become picky eaters at the same time. Spanish words interspersed in the rhyming text are defined in a glossary.

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L.A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford

This text traces the history of food and famine in Ireland. The authors explore the economic and social forces which have lain behind changes in diet, as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and nutrition.

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Matthew Locricchio

"Introduces the different culinary regions of Italy and presents many kinds of recipes for traditional Italian dishes"--