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The writings of the various religions (Koran, Torah, New Testa food For cooking and eating restrictions in various cultures, see Nourritures, Socits et Religions: Coe Thierry) Paris: L'Har, see:

Lori Longbotham Better by Microwave New York: Dutton, 1990

Maria Luisa Scott Mastering Microwave Cooking Mount Vernon NY: Consumers Union, 1988

Eric Quayle Old Cook Books: An Illustrated History New York: Dutton 1978; and Daniel S Cutler The Bible Cookbook New York: Morrow, 1985, offer a good retrospective of what people used to eat

In World Hunger A Reference Handbook (Patricia L Kutzner, Santa Barbara CA: ABC-Clio, 1991), the author gives a stark description of the probleh food in the world to feed everyone, hundreds of ry” (p ix)

It is not the first time in history that starvation and famine affect people all over the world What is new is the scale of the probles In June, 1974, in the assessment of the World Food Situation, commissioned by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, the situation was described in tered: ”The causes of inadequate nutrition are ical, sanitary, and cultural constraints, but the principal cause is poverty This in turn results from socioeconomic development patterns that in h degree of concentration of poealth, and incomes in the hands of relatively sroups [] The percentage of undernourished is highest in Africa, the Far East, and Latin Ahest in the Far East (in the range of 60) Of the hungry, the majority (up to 90) is in rural areas

Data is collected and io Declaration, Overcoroup of 23 prominent development and food policy planners, development practitioners, and scientists noticed that 14 e of five years die annually froanizations created to help feed the world are CARE, Food for Peace, OXFAM, Action Hunger, The Hunger Project, Save the Children, World Vision, the Heifer Project This list does not include the ry in their respective countries and cities

Science and Philosophy: More Questions than Answers

TS Elliot Burnt Norton, in V Four Quartets London: Faber & Faber, 1936

For information on the development of science and philosophy in early civilizations, see:

shi+geru Nakayama and Nathan Sivin, Editors Chinese Science: Exploration of an Ancient Tradition Cae: MIT Press, 1973

Karl W Butzer Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: a Study in Cultural Ecology Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976

Heinrich von Staden Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria Cae University Press, 1989

The Cultural Heritage of India, (in 6 volumes) Calcutta: Ramakrishna Mission, Institute of Culture, 1953

James H MacLachlan Children of Proy Toronto: Wall & Thoraphical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology The Lives and Achievements of 1195 Great Scientists from Ancient Times to the Present Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1972 Fritz Kraft Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft Freiberg: Romback, 1971

GER Lloyd Methods and Problee University Press, 1991

Robert KG Temple China, Land of Discovery London: Patrick Stephens, 1986

Temple documents discoveries and techniques such as row cultivation and hoeing (”There are 3 inches of moisture at the end of a hoe,”), the iron plow, the horse harness, cast iron, the crank handle, lacquer (”the first plastic”), the deci from China In the Introduction, Joseph Needham writes: ”Chauvinistic Westerners, of course, always try to minimize the indebtedness of Europe to China in Antiquity and the Middle Ages” (p7)

What is of interest in the story is the fact that all these discoveries occur in a context of configurational focus, of synthesis, not in the sequential horizon of analytic Western languages In soht is linearized This is best exe es, with those following Gutenberg's movable type Obviously, a text perceived as a holistic entity, such as the Buddhist charm scroll (printed in 704-751) or the Buddhist Diamond Sutra of 868 (cf p 112) are different fro and his followers Contributions to the history of science from India and the Middle East also reveal that many discoveries celebrated as accomplishments of Western analytical science were anticipated in non-analytical cultures

Satya Prakash Founders of Science in Ancient India Dehli: Govindram Hasanand, 1986

G Kuppuram and K kuy in India Dehli: Sundeep Prakashan, 1990