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Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity / Gary Paul Nabhan.
| Author/creator | Nabhan, Gary Paul |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2004. |
| Description | 233 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Discerning the histories encoded in our bodies -- Searching for the ancestral diet: did mitochondrial eve and java man feast on the same foods? -- Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines -- Discovering why some don't like it hot: is it a matter of taste? -- Dealing with migration headaches: should we change places, diets, or genes? -- Rooting out the causes of disease: why diabetes is so common among desert dwellers -- Reconnecting the health of people with the health of the land: how Hawaiians are curing themselves. |
| General note | "A shearwater book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004005033 |
| ISBN | 1559634669 (cloth : alk. paper) |