Turmeric Nation
by Shylashri Shankar
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What one consumes as food plays a major role in defining not just the physical wellbeing
but also has an impact on facets of one’s identity. Who am I? We define the
‘I’ in relation to someone or something. The theme of the book is how the way one
relates to food (personally and culturally) can help one live an artful life. We act out our
proclivities and prejudices in the way we consume or reject a dish, who we eat it with,
and how we prepare it.
In life, as in food, we aspire to achieve a harmony of balance between the sweet,
the bitter, the salty and the umami. The book begins with sensations (taste, pain and
pleasure), then moves to the thinking process (food for the brain), and onto memories
(hunting luncheons as a type of leisure, culture and rituals, gods and their favourite
food); and more global concerns (national cuisine, gender issues, and vegetarianism).
The book concludes with a chapter on philosophy and nutrition. The essays weave in
psychological, scientific, archaeological and cultural research with personal memories
and interrogate how one’s relationship with food shapes one’s identity.
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