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Food and Faith

A Pilgrim's Journey through India

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Food and Faith

Written by: Shoba Narayan, Dilshad Khurana
Narrated by: Dilshad Khurana
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 Why do we pray?

Why do we pray? What is the role of religion in your life today? Do you commune with the divine through rituals? Or is it a comforting routine, going to church or temple once a week or month? Are these questions making you uncomfortable? Do you think religion is a private act to be done in the confines of one's home, with family, and not something to declare publicly?

In Food & Faith, Shoba Narayan approaches faith through perhaps its most primal and nourishing aspect: food. She partakes of sacred food in shrines across India: Puri's bhog, Amritsar's langar, Palani's panchamritam, Mathura's pedas, Ambalapuzha's paal-payasam, Kashi's sweets, Jaipur's rabdi, Ajmer's kesaria bhat, Madurai's dosai, Jewish halva in Mumbai and communal feasts in Udupi, Goa and the Kumbh Mela.

Food & Faith explores this powerful yet intimate intertwining of food with faith, history, myth and identity.

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The book offers an interesting insight into faith-based foods given in temples, churches, mosques and other places of worship. However, in an effort to be “fair”, the author explains the reason why she isn’t proud of being a Hindu, while completely ignoring and not discussing the many privileges she and her ancestors would most definitely have got by being Brahmins. The author also romanticises practices of other religions, while forgetting that those religions are equally problematic (just as they are equally beautiful) as Hinduism.
A more and actual fair treatment of the subject would have made this book better.
The narrator is good and captures the sentiments of the author correctly.

Interesting, but author comes across as hypocritical

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