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Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia

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“Most of us remember fondly our grandmothers' and mothers' kitchens but it can hardly be true that all of them enjoyed cooking. For most of history, and even today, cooking has not been a choice for women and, in the most extreme of cases, it has been the reason for their deaths. The luxury to be able to choose to cook is a class privilege. What to make of it, then?!”

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Book:Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia
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“Подобно на физическата, духовната храна трябва да бъде търпеливо приготвена,правилно дозирана и красиво поднесена в подходящия момент... Like the physical food, spiritual food must be patiently prepared, properly dosed and beautifully served at the right moment...”

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“For millions of years our human, and before them, hominid ancestors lived in small bands of a few hundred persons wherein the women contributed most of the calories by gathering edible plants and men provided much of the protein through hunting. Most of our behavioral predispositions were evolved to adapt us to this type of life, and not to our very different, contemporary world of computers, cars and concrete.”

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