Eating And Cooking Flashcards
By cooking and eating we?
Create connections with communities
Create and define boundaries
What is culture and food choice?
Bio cultural adaptions
Cooking and evolution
Deciphering eating and cooking
Cooking and eating as social action
Food choice and culture
Bicultural adaptions to food selection
Mexico and obesity
Inunits and blood thirst
Spices and human physiology
Brain mechanisms for food selection
What is one of the most overweight countries?
Mexico
1/4 men
1/3 women
What does Gordo and gorda mean?
Chubby used by both husbands and wives as a term of endearment
Diabetics federation states?
Kills 70000 per year
Archeology and ethnographic - mexico
Suffered the most ecological stressors throughout human history
Inuits and blood thirst
Raw food diet
Eg fish
Kill seal - consume liver first - gathering blood in mug to drink
Then fat and brain mixed into bloody drink with some meat from the flanx
Spices
Chilli - capsaicin
Fools body into causing heat anti measure to take action with vasodilation and perspiration
What percentage of all cultures use spice?
93%
Name some food Bourne bacteria?
Staphylococcus
Salmonella
Vibrio
C-diff
Darwin gastronomy
Why we use spices experienment
30 spices tested to see if they kill or inhabit growth in bacterial species
Cooking and evolution
Levy-Strauss
Food and structure of human thought
He used the culinary triangle 3types of cooking 3 types of food states
Cooking in the evolution of homo erectus
Cooking food- increases hominid -brainsize - smaller teeth
But better absorption of nutrients
Mary Douglas - deripherencing a meal
Food is social practise
Finding the meaning of good in a particular family requires finding patterns and analysing them by breaking into small units
Meals are a mix of solid foods with liquids