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Since in India, more than in any other part of the world, food has been invested with meaning as a marker of identity. The corollary of “You are what you eat” is “You eat what you are”
Buddhists, Jains, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and those adhering to other religions have their own food prescriptions and proscriptions. Feasts to celebrate festivals and
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Michael Pollan • Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
For us right now, in this period science has some understanding of what’s going on, but historically fermentation has been such a mystery that it’s been really seen in many contexts as something quite literally divine. And there’s a huge amount of ceremony and ritual organized around fermentation. We can even look at some of the major world religio... See more