Midterm 1 Flashcards
“Catching Fire: How Cooking made us Human”
Richard Wrangham
How did man evolve beyond other species?
fire, communication, cooking
Major rises in human brain size have been associated with two increases in diet quality…
- increased consumption of meat
2. reduction in tooth size due to ability to exploit new kinds of habitat
brains use
20% of BMR
“Catching Fire: How Cooking made us Human”
Richard Wrangham
Hunter Gatherer
Agricultural
8000 BC - 1800 AD, domestication of animals and plants, beginning of civilization
What is food physiologically?
Nutrition (body mass, vitamins, metabolism)
Satiety (hunger, thirst)
How did man evolve beyond other species?
fire, communication, cooking
Major rises in human brain size have been associated with two increases in diet quality…
- increased consumption of meat
2. reduction in tooth size due to ability to exploit new kinds of habitat
brains use
20% of BMR
Diamond Jim Brady
stomach 6x that of normal human
“best 25 customers I ever had”
Agricultural
8000 BC - 1800 AD, domestication of animals and plants, beginning of civilization
Industrial
1800 AD and on, food science and tech, nutrition
What is food physiologically?
Nutrition (body mass, vitamins, metabolism)
Satiety (hunger, thirst)
What is food chemically?
water (many foods frozen but still water)
protein, carbohydrate, fat (or oil), minor components (vitamins, minerals, coloring, taste, odor)
What is food culturally?
cultural statement, ethnic or national statement, “national dish”, religious statement, status symbol, part of celebrations, statement of social awareness or values
Ideally… food should be
nutritious, wholesome, safe, appealing, stable, convenient, sufficient, affordable, available, appropriate
Diamond Jim Brady
stomach 6x that of normal human
“best 25 customers I ever had”
4 western “humors”
blood (air), yellow bile (fire), black bile (earth), phlegm (water)
warm and cool foods
has more to do with energetics
warm foods
red meat, root veggies, spices
cold foods
fruits, leaf veggies, water plants
foods with these tastes will help these organs respectively: Heart, liver, lung, kidney, spleen
bitter, sour, spicy, salty, sweet
corned beef and cabbage arose in..
America, Irish Immigrants found it cheap meat and they could grow cabbage in yard (irish-american tradition)
haggis is native to
scotland, stuffed lamb stomach with organs and insides
what does business think of kosher
loves it, good marketing and branding
rondele
kosher-D
Why have food restrictions?
holy scriptures, health reasons, brings celebration of religion into home, practices define the religious community
tam tam
parve, but not for passover
“kosher”
proper
“halal”
lawful
“treif”
not kosher
“haram”
prohibited
difference between halal and kosher
halal meat must be blessed
Why have food restrictions?
holy scriptures, health reasons, brings celebration of religion into home, practices define the religious community
mid autumn festival
moon festival, chinese, moon cakes, 1st mentioned 1046 BC- 256 BC
how do we know what food we can eat?
sweet= calories, bitter=alkaline/toxin tasting
Food Additives Amendment
1958, 1st safety with regulated food, list of 700 items in wide use that are exempt from safety evaluation
GRAS
generally recognized as safe
3000 BC Mesopotamia
cultivation of grain crops, barley beer, fermentation
4000BC Egypt
beer, yeast breads
Greece
propagation of plants, juices of plants (wine)
Middle Ages
manners and haute cuisine developed
Table manners Bronze/Iron age
cooked soups in pots, dipped spoons of wood/bone into cooking pot, 1ST RULES ABOUT EATING DETERMINED WHO COULD DIP INTO POT 1ST
Medieval Food (500-1450 AD)
poor people= barley, ale, wine, barley bread
rich people= wheat, ale ,wine, meat, spices
15/16th century books
described how to prepare ingredients with health and medicine in mind
early european banquets
no individual plates, 2 people per soup bowl, stale bread as plates that were given to poor after finished
1530 Erasmus
“On Civility in Children”
Renaissance changes to table
fork from Italy/Venice, diners had own cup, ate from shared plates, bones no longer thrown on floor, manners moving toward cleanliness and order
1669 King Louis XIV
ordered all table knives had rounded ends, 1st in europe to offer guests place setting with forks, knives, spoons; food became defining symbol of national identity
American Colonial food
european traditions dominated until 19th century; meats and breads, not many fruits and veggies
1800’s American food
began to distinguish self from European tradition; incorporation of native ingredients
Four major american food traditions
new england tradition, southern tradition, mid-atlantic, frontier/backcountry
new england tradition
associates plain cooking with religious piety; seasoned foods regarded as sensual indulgence; boiled/baked meats, veggies, baked breads, pies
southern tradition
creole/cajun spice, seasonings, frying, simmering; corn potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, beans, pumpkins, okra, rice, wild game and seafood
mid-atlantic tradition
quakerism,; plain and simple, boiling, boiled puddings and dumplings
frontier/backcountry
ingredients that english used as animal feed (potatoes, corn, greens); stressed griddle cakes, grits, greens, pork, wild game, fish
“The Great Western Cook Book”
Maria Collins
Unique to American Diet
puritanical restraint, excessive consumption, abundance of meat and distilled liquor, abundance of CORN=feed for livestock, whiskey
early 1800s adult men drinking…
more than 7 gallons pure alcohol per year
German influence on american food
americanized in form of bbq, cole slaw, hot dogs, donuts, hamburger; association of food with celebration encouraged americans to make meals center piece of holiday
industrial influence on american food
1800’s, food mass produced, marketed, standardized, factories processed, preserved, canned, packaged, processed cereals; refridgerated railroad car (1878)
Gustavus Swift
slaughter and processing of cattle in Chicago via refrigerated railroad; “era of cheap beef”; pioneered use of animal by-products
Upton Sinclair
“The Jungle”
Clarence Birdseye
“Father of Frozen Foods”; 1993 invented flash-freezing; first frozen veggies 1930 (Birds Eye Frosted Foods)
Fast food influence on american food
1920’s “White Castle” first fast food, increasingly processed and distributed foods began to dominate nations diet
WWII and other wars influence on american food
overseas servicemen exposed to different foods, along with more international trade
revolutions in food technology and agriculture
eating becomes big business, separates americans from food production almost entirely
Dietary Reform Movements
19th century diet reform and health regimens; Health Food Movement (HFM); food choice began to take on moral ovvertones
America’s First Health Craze
(1820-30) American Revolution, cultural nationalism, urbanization/industrialization and comercialization; food adulteration rampant
Sylvester Grahm
presbyterian minister who preached virtues of vegetarian lifestyle as way of salvation; 1st to preach you are what you eat, extolled the virtues of wholewheat; lectured against alcohol, meat, and condiments (claimed they caused insanity); believed vegetarian wouldaid in suppressign carnal urges; believed lust harmful to body; “Grahm Crackers”
“Every farmer knows that if his horse has straw cut with his grain, or hay in abundance, he does well enough. Just so it is with the human species. Man needs the bran in his bread”
Sylvester Grahm (1835)
James Caleb Jackson
hydropathy cured his illness; agreed with Grahm with whole wheat and veggie diet; “The Water Cure”; 1863 was 1st to make BREAKFAST CEREAL; “Granula”; “Somo” as coffee substitute; 1st to market “health foods”
Sister Ellen White
Founding member of Seventh Day Adventists church
no meat, alcohol, tobacco, spices
1866 opened WESTERN HEALTH REORM INSTITUTE (Battle Creek)
1876 expanded institute and put Kellogg in charge
name changed to Battle Creek Saniarium (included use of radiation therapy for cancer and flaked cereal)
Dr. J Harvey Kellogg
Battle Creek Sanitarium “The San”
skilled surgeon, bowel obsessed quack
devoted to creating healthy food items for patiens
advocate of vegetarianism and exercise
invented peanut butter, granola, toasted flakes
exploited seventh day adventists as cheap labor
1894===>brother william invented flaked cereal after patient broke teeth on zwieback (same brother would steal Kellogg company)
“anti sex” separated husbands and wives at “The San”
200000 patients before fired
“The Road to Wellvill”
T. Coraghesan Boyle
describes fictional acct of Dr. Kelloggs life and times
made into movie
Elie Metchnicoff
worried about longevity, looked around europe for old people
won nobel prize in 1908 for phagocytosis theory
longest lived people in europe
Bulgarians
Metchnikoff thought it was because of yogurt
bacteria studied by Metchnikoff
Lactobacillus bulgaricus
in yogurt he studied
yogurt eventually incorporated into “The Sans” for various things including yogurt enemas
“The Prolongation of Life”
Metchnikoff 1907
“The Great Masticator”
Horace Fletcher
Horace Fletcher
“Fletcherism” chew food before you swallow
meat forbidden
“demon rum” alcohol, idea gaining in popularity due to Temperance Movement
Temperance Movement
related to HFM
1874-WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union)
Carry A. Nation (fought with bible and hatchet)
pushed for prohibition of alcohol in WW1
largely fueled by women who had alcoholic husbands or fathers
Carry A. Nation
1867 married physician who was heavy drinker
had sickly child and attributed it to husbands drinking
left husband becuase of alcohol and unsteady income
1877 married preacher David Nation 19 yrs older
National Prohibition Act
1919
lead to passage of 18th amendment banning sale or consumption of alcohol in US
1ST AMENDMENT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY CANT DO
1933 21st amendment repealed 18th
Henry D. Perky
advocated whole wheat as healthy food
invented shredder in denver, tried to sell to kelloggs but failed
pioneer of “cookless breakfast food”
he was 1st to mass produce and nationally distribute ready-to-eat cereal
National Biscuit Company
“Nabisco”
started by Henry D. Perky