By Elizabeth Leppman
The ebook offers with a subject of perennial curiosity to chinese language and non-Chinese alike: chinese language nutrition. chinese language tradition is outstandingly food-oriented, and non-Chinese are fascinated by what chinese language humans in China truly devour, as contrasted with nutrition in ever-popular chinese language restaurants.
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If "you are what you eat," you may "become" polluted by contact with something less than desirable. Disgust seems to be a universal emotional reaction, a "socially constructed biological safeguard" against consuming something dangerous (Fischler, 1988b). Exactly what provokes disgust is determined culturally, but substances associated with animals are regarded more commonly as disgusting than plant material (Rozin, 1990). By the same token, flesh foods are the most common subjects of taboos. Both plant and animal foods may suffer low evaluation as expressions of social status; chidins and beans in the South were tropes for poverty until they became a symbol of black pride in the late 1960s.
Archaeological remains also have yielded fried sweet cakes of wheat flour (probably something like doughnuts) and dumplings with wheat-flour wrappers (jiaozi and huntun). A "Brahman cake" was made of steamed wheat paste (Schafer, 1977). 34 Changing Rice Bowl: Economic Development and Diet in China During the Song dynasty, wheat continued to gain in popularity as the technology introduced during the Tang dynasty became more established (Anderson, 1988). Noodles made from wheat became a common staple for both rich and poor (Raichlen, 1992), although the story that the Chinese invented noodles and Marco Polo took the idea back to Italy is apocryphal.
It can also be grown as a dry-land crop, providing that natural rainfall is sufficient (about 80 inches or 2,000 mm per year). Fast-maturing varieties have extended gready its latitudinal extent, and the northernmost rice paddy in the world is in far northern Heilongjiang Province, at Mohe on the Amur River (Heilong Jiang) at 53°31' north latitude (Zhao, 1994: 182). Not only is rice versatile, it also responds well to labor inputs (Anderson, 1988; Bray, 1994). Starting seedlings in nursery beds and then transplanting them into flooded paddies, in addition to the work of terracing and building irrigation works, pays off in higher yields.