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Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Binding: Paperback, 1 edition, 248 pages
Publisher: Island Press
Weight: 0.6 pound
Dimension: H: 0.8 x L: 8.1 x W: 5.4 inches
ISBN 10: 1597260916
ISBN 13: 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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