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Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment

Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment

by Elisabeth Luard

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Food nourishes our souls and is a vital part of our religious ceremonies and secular celebrations. "Sacred Food" explores the dishes that are traditionally served at significant moments in human life - birth, puberty, courtship, betrothal and marriage, death, burial, and remembrance - and explains why and how we celebrate with food. More than 40 recipes include pan de muertos, prepared for the Mexican Day of the Dead; piroshki from Slovakia, to celebrate the birth of a baby; cassava with chili and peanuts, to mark an African girl's coming-of-age; and the honey cake, prepared for a Turkish wedding feast. One hundred stunning images bring to life a wealth of recipes and myriad cultures including those of Mexico, Japan, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, North America, the Middle East, Germany, Scandinavia, and Britain.

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Original Publisher
MQ Publications
Date of publication
2001
ISBN
1556523939

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Behind the cookbook: Sacred Food

Behind the cookbook: Sacred Food

Elisabeth Luard is the author of more than 20 books. A particular focus through her career has been in depth research into the anthropology of food, and regional traditions involving food throughout the world. In this Behind the Cookbook series she tells the story of how she came to write Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment, first published in 2001 and now available on ckbk. As well as being a writer, Luard is also an illustrator and watercolorist, and ckbk’s re-release of Sacred Food includes a number of Luard’s own illustrations.

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