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Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Island Books
June 2006
On Sale: June 7, 2006
248 pages
ISBN: 1597260916
EAN: 9781597260916
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In Why Some Like It Hot, an award-winning natural historian
takes us on a culinary odyssey to solve the puzzles posed
by "the ghosts of evolution" hidden within every culture
and its traditional cuisine. As we travel with Nabhan from
Java and Bali to Crete and Sardinia, to Hawaii and Mexico,
we learn how various ethnic cuisines formerly protected
their traditional consumers from both infectious and
nutrition-related diseases. We also bear witness to the
tragic consequences of the loss of traditional foods, from
adult-onset diabetes running rampant among 100 million
indigenous peoples to the historic rise in heart disease
among individuals of northern European descent. In this, the most insightful and far-reaching book of his
career, Nabhan offers us a view of genes, diets, ethnicity,
and place that will forever change the way we understand
human health and cultural diversity. This book marks the
dawning of evolutionary gastronomy in a way that may save
and enrich millions of lives
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