Cultural aspects of nutrition : the integration of art and science / Louis E. Grivetti.

Contents;

Part one: Interface between culture and ecology - Food and diet
1. No blade of grass: Origins of the human food supply and the paradox of plant domestication
2. Culture, clay, and crickets: Food for one is not food for all
3. Tortillas, beans, pulque, and weeds. Otomi nutritional success under harsh environmental conditions of the Mezquital valley, central Mexico
4. People of the sandy river bottom: baTlokwa nutritional success during drought in the eastern Kalahari, dessert, Botswana

Part two: Interface between history and mythology - Food and diet
5. The gift of Osiris: Overview of ancient Egyptian foods and health
6. Nothing in excess: Table manners and food related behaviors. Selected proverbs and sayings from ancient Greece
7. The Columbian exchange and clash of cuisines: Food-related events of 1492 and subsequent impacts on global food patterns
8. A feast of fables and facts: Common foods and their stories

Part three: Interface between culture and history - Food and diet
9. The food with two faces: Positive and negative attributes towards wine from antiquity to the 21st century
10. Beverages of the Gods: Chocolate as food and as medicine
11. Tears of saint Isidore: Mastic resin and the chain massacres of 1821
12. Death on the wing: Bio-geography of human poisoning from eating European migratory quail

Part four: Interface between culture and history - Health and nutrition
13. Fear of fat - Love of lean: Changing attitudes towards body weight from remote antiquity to the 21st century
14. Feed a cold - Starve a fever: History and geographical distribution of allopathic medicine and dietetics
15. Scales of indifference: Historical overview of Neonatal survival tests and the weighing and measuring of infants
16. Chains of knowledge: Pregnancy, Lactation and infant feeding in early muslim Hadith texts

Part five: Interface between culture and ethics - Health and nutrition
17. Human targets: Content and hype in vitamin advertising
18. Fields of fire: The brave new world of genetically modified foods
19. Disgraceful gifts: Paradoxes and dilemmas associated with international food assistance
20. Final chapter and late rites: Feeding and re-hydrating the terminally ill.

Index : p. 261-275.