Eat not this flesh
Subtitle: food avoidances from prehistory to the present
By: Frederick J. Simoons.
Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Food habits.; Meat.; Fish as food.
Description: Examines the use and avoidance of flesh foods, including beef, pork, chicken, and eggs, camel, dog, horse, and fish, from antiquity to the present day. Simoons finds that the recurrent theme of maintaining ritual purity, good health, and well-being underlies diet habits. He emphasizes that only a full range of factors can explain eating patterns, and stresses the interplay of religious, moral, hygienic, ecological, and economic factors in the context of human culture. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-516) and index.