TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nabhan,Gary Paul
TI  - Why some like it hot: food, genes, and cultural diversity 
SN  - 1559634669 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - QH431 .N28 2004
U1  - 394.1 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington
PB  - Island Press/Shearwater Books
KW  - Human population genetics
KW  - Food preferences
KW  - Ethnic groups
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index; Introduction -- Ch. 1. Sailing through histories encoded in our bodies -- Ch.2. -- Searching for the ancestral diet -- Did mitochondrial eve and java man feast on the same foods? -- Ch. 3. Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- Ch. 4. The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines --Ch . 5. Discovering why some don't like it hot -- Is it a matter of taste? -- Ch. 6. Dealing with migration headaches -- Should we change places, diets, or genes? -- Ch. 7. Rooting out the causes of disease -- Why diabetes is so common among desert-dwellers -- Ch. 8 -- Reconnecting the health of the people with the health of the land -- How Hawaiians are curing themselves
ER  -