Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present

Description

Author: Simoons, Frederick J.  (1922-)

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Pub Date: 1994

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Upper front cover corner has approx. 1/4″ crease.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unread.

Notes: Pork, beef, chicken, eggs, horse, camel, dog, fish.  Lucretius is given credit for coining the expression  “quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum” (what is food for one man may be bitter poison to others) in the first century BC.  My father was having none of that–“You’ll eat it, and act like you like it.”