Consuming the Inedible

Consuming the InedibleEveryday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of foods conventionally regarded as inedible by most

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