GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Louis Pasteur, Lactase, Meat Extract
22 Apr 2018
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Food and identity: religion christianity and islam, we all belong to different religion, nations and cultures. Are also called the gypsies but that"s racial because they were systematically persecuted/slaves. Originated in india: distinctive cuisine and diet influenced by country they have travelled through. Aspicious: baxtalo is a term for lucky, certain foods that are lucky are strong and pungent, garlic, lemon, tomato, anything that ferments, the most sacred is bread. Early ancestors ate lowest hanging fruit and ate what they could access. Plants, fruits, vegetables, birds, slow/weak animals but were all raw. Middens they are garbage dumps for archaeologists. Main diet of ancestors were tortoises (moved slower and are big) They invented a machine because all slow animals started to disappear, and difficult in finding new prey. Ancestors originated in africa and left 150,000 years ago and moved to middle east.
