TASTING IS BELIEVING

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Disclaimer: some statements may not apply to imparied taste persons

 When you eat your food, do you let the food settle in your month long enough to notice your tongue's taste receptors reacting? Can you detect what tastes stand out when you eat your favorite dish? Unless there's a specific reason, it's probably unlikely that you pay attention as you gulf down your food. 

 In Elizabeth Pérez's work, Religion in the Kitchen : Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions, she emphasizes the importance of preparing food. Through the process of cooking foos one has to taste to the food to ensure that it is good enough to serve one's God.

In essence. it's as if one can taste God whenthey devour something very delicious. When food can bring one delight and remind one of fond memories, it holds the power of bonding the person to that particular food. This can relate back to religion since food unites one with other as other join in to assisst with preparing the food. Once the preparationis completed and the time to eat arrives, it allows the person to be thankful for having food to eat. It also allows the person to be thankful for the food being cooked. 

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