Consuming The Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

By: Jeremy MacClancy, Jeya Henry, & Helen Macbeth

"Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. The 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 Westerners."

Food, or not food? 

Nutritional...or not?

Soil, clay....boogers?

Seeking to answer the question of, 'why do they do that?', as a forever student of psychology is always fun for me, so of course I felt this was a book worth reading.

Don't we all want to better understand the image on the cover of this book? 

Maybe, maybe not. 

For those of you who want to know...

Happy reading!