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Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity
- Title
- Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity / Gary Paul Nabhan.
- Author
- Nabhan, Gary Paul.
- Publication
- Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2004.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 05-12206 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 233 p.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Sailing through histories encoded in our bodies -- Ch.2. -- Searching for the ancestral diet -- Did mitochondrial eve and java man feast on the same foods? -- Ch. 3. Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- Ch. 4. The shaping and shipping away of mediterranean cuisines --Ch . 5. Discovering why some don't like it hot -- Is it a matter of taste? -- Ch. 6. Dealing with migration headaches -- Should we change places, diets, or genes? -- Ch. 7. Rooting out the causes of disease -- Why diabetes is so common among desert-dwellers -- Ch. 8 -- Reconnecting the health of the people with the health of the land -- How hawaiians are curing themselves.
- Call Number
- JFD 05-12206
- ISBN
- 1559634669 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004005033
- OCLC
- 54685972
- Author
- Nabhan, Gary Paul.
- Title
- Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity / Gary Paul Nabhan.
- Imprint
- Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 05-12206