@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674064737,
      recid = {453948},
      author = {Allen, John S.},
      title = {The omnivorous mind our evolving relationship with food /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674064737},
      pages = {1 online resource (319 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen  demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers  deep insights into human beings' biological and cultural  heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals,  but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as  our stomachs. This thoughtful relationship with food is  part of what makes us a unique species, and makes culinary  cultures diverse. Not even our closest primate relatives  think about food in the way Homo sapiens does. We are  superomnivores whose palates reflect the natural history of  our species. Drawing on the work of food historians and  chefs, anthropologists and neuroscientists, Allen starts  out with the diets of our earliest ancestors, explores  cooking's role in our evolving brain, and moves on to the  preoccupations of contemporary foodies. The Omnivorous Mind  delivers insights into food aversions and cravings, our  compulsive need to label foods as good or bad, dietary  deviation from healthy food pyramids, and cross-cultural  attitudes toward eating (with the French, bien sûr,  exemplifying the pursuit of gastronomic pleasure).To  explain, for example, the worldwide popularity of crispy  foods, Allen considers first the food habits of our  insect-eating relatives. He also suggests that the sound of  crunch may stave off dietary boredom by adding variety to  sensory experience. Or perhaps fried foods, which we think  of as bad for us, interject a frisson of illicit pleasure.  When it comes to eating, Allen shows, there's no one way to  account for taste.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/453948},
}