Holy Food

by Christina Ward
Holy Food
  • ISBN-13: 9781934170922
  • Author(s): Christina Ward
  • Subject: Cookery / food & drink etc
  • Publisher: Process
  • Imprint: Process
  • Publication Date: 14-11-2013
  • Format: p/b

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£26.99
Holy Food explores the influence of religious beliefs from mainstream to fringe on modern American food culture. Author Christina Ward unravels the numerous ways religious beliefs intersect with politics and economics and, of course, food to tell a different story of America. It's the story of true believers and charlatans, of idealists and visionaries, and of the everyday people who followed them - often at their peril. Holy Food explains how cataclysmic disasters of all types are connected to faith pioneers' personal journeys and reveals the interconnectivity between the sects and their leaders. In America, where the freedom to believe whatever you want and worship the god of not only of your own choice but of your own making embraced old traditions and invented new ones. Religious beliefs have been the source of food 'rules' since Pythagoras told his followers not to eat beans (they contain souls), Kosher and Halal rules forbade the shrimp cocktail (shellfish are scavengers, or may
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Holy Food explores the influence of religious beliefs from mainstream to fringe on modern American food culture. Author Christina Ward unravels the numerous ways religious beliefs intersect with politics and economics and, of course, food to tell a different story of America. It's the story of true believers and charlatans, of idealists and visionaries, and of the everyday people who followed them - often at their peril. Holy Food explains how cataclysmic disasters of all types are connected to faith pioneers' personal journeys and reveals the interconnectivity between the sects and their leaders. In America, where the freedom to believe whatever you want and worship the god of not only of your own choice but of your own making embraced old traditions and invented new ones. Religious beliefs have been the source of food 'rules' since Pythagoras told his followers not to eat beans (they contain souls), Kosher and Halal rules forbade the shrimp cocktail (shellfish are scavengers, or may

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