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The Oxford Anthology of South Asian Food Writing
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New Delhi, India (Telegraph): Food is political. All possible forms of power-games are played out through the eating, cooking, serving, feeding, selling and wasting of food, not to forget the craving for it. A.K. Ramanujan’s essay, “Food for Thought: Towards an Anthology of Hindu Food-images”, which really works as an umbrella piece for this anthology, translates from the Taittiriya Upanishad: “From food, from food/ creatures, all creatures/ come to be// Gorging, disgorging/ beings come/ to be// By food they live,/ In food they move,/ into food they pass//…And what eats is eaten:/ and what’s eaten, eats/ in turn.”
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