taste and religion

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Taste is such an important sense, it’s a great way to connect with one’s culture, religion and traditions. It’s also a way to learn and connect with other people and cultural experiences. Peoples preferred taste and preferred foods is highly connected to one’s culture, traditions and regional access. For example, people from tropical islands are going to have more fish and fresh fruits in their diets while people from cold, land locked countries will have more meats and grains in their diets. The like or dislike of certain foods was an evolutionary way of keeping us safe from eating poisons. But this has since evolved into a more complex sense since then. 

In the book “Religion in the Kitchen” Elizabeth Perez talks a lot about how food is highly connected to religion and traditions. She focuses closely on Afro-Caribbean religious experiences and how important the role of cooking is as a way to pray to their god or gods. on page 55 Perez mentions how writings and myths dictate the consumption of the Orishia’s as well as religious follower. Many other faith have texts that dictates the diet of their followed such as in Judaism the Torah explains the laws of keeping kosher.

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  1. Jonathan Brumberg-KrausMarch 2, 2020 at 8:01 AM

    Are they "praying to their gods" in Lucumi, or are they feeding their gods? Are the two the same thing?

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    1. AnonymousMarch 23, 2020 at 3:45 PM

      I interpreted it as being the same thing. That to pray to someone, is to nourish them...

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  2. Rosie SteinerMay 1, 2020 at 9:47 AM

    I think it's really interesting to hear people talk about how a different country's food "didn't agree with them" and sometimes they take that as "the food wasn't prepared well", whereas in reality it's just that their body isn't used to these different types of foods.

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