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Food preferences and taste : continuity and change /

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic liter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Macbeth, Helen M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 1997.
Colección:Anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Food preferences and taste: an introduction
  • Primate models for taste and food preferences
  • Food preferences in neotropical primates in relation to taste sensitivity
  • Neural processing underlying food selection
  • Good taste and bad taste: prferences and aversions as biological principles
  • Disgust: the cultural evolution of a food-based emotion
  • Wild plants as famine foods: food choice under conditions of scarcity
  • Three centuries of changing european tastes for the potato
  • The pathways of taste: the west Andalucian case
  • Evolution in eating habits in the Alto Douro of northern Portugal
  • Nationality and food preferences in the Cerdanya Valley, eastern Pyrenees
  • Breaking the rules: changes in food acceptability among the Tharu of Nepal
  • Choices of food and cuisine in the concept of social space among the Yao of Thailand
  • Taste and embodiment: the food preferences of Iranians in Britain
  • Food preferences and taste in an African perspective: a word of caution.