In the news . . .

• Rosenblum, Jordan D. 2024. Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig. NY: NYU Press.
  
  
• Uttar Pradesh: Why deadly cow attacks are an issue in Indian state election -- BBCNews (25 January 2022)
  
  
• ‘This is a cult’: inside the shocking story of a religious weight-loss group -- The Guardian (21 September 2021)
  
  
• The Menu Evolves for a Muslim Holiday Built Around Food -- The New York Times (09 July 2021)
  
  
• The surprising link between food, sin and the oral phase -- BBCReel (06 April 2021)
  
  
• How Brexit Ruined Easter for Britain’s Chocolate Makers -- The New York Times (03 April 2021)
  
  
• French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers rem food religion -- The Guardian (26 March 2021)
  
  
• Vertical farm produces kosher certified no-insect produce -- The Jerusalem Post (29 December 2020)
  
  
• Where bananas are considered sacred -- BBCtravel (19 November 2020)
  
  
• Early Christians Might Have Been High on Hallucinogenic Communion Wine -- Vice (20 October 2020)
  
  
• Are Beyond Burgers beyond Lent’s meat-free rules? Here’s what Philly’s archdiocese and others say -- The Philadelphia Inquirer (28 February 2020)
  
  
• Many Catholics question whether plant-based meat is Lent-friendly -- Aleteia (28 February 2020)
  
  
• Can Catholics eat the Impossible Burger during Lent? Sure — but it’s kind of missing the point, experts say -- The Washington Post (28 February 2020)
  
  
• Gross, Aaron S., Jody Myers, and Jordan D. Rosenblum (Eds.). 2020. Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food. NY: New York University Press.
  
  
• Why are shops in Iraq stocking up on Scottish sweets? -- BBCNews (09 August 2019)
  
  
• Environmental campaigners have offered Pope Francis a $1m donation to the charity of his choice if he accepts -- The Guardian (06 February 2019)
  
  
• Food Movements in Veganuary: How Veganism became the fastest growing food movement in the world -- Bloomsbury Food Library (02 February 2019)
  
  
• Anger over pork sausages at Germany Islam event -- BBCNews (30 November 2018)
  
  
• Schorsch, Jonathan. The Food Movement, Culture and Religion: A Tale of Pigs, Christians, Jews and Politics. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  
  
• Meat Labs Pursue a Once-Impossible Goal: Kosher Bacon -- The New York Times (30 September 2018)
  
  
• Israel’s millennia-old ‘biblical diet’ -- BBCtravel (09 May 2018)
  
  
• Is This Artichoke Kosher? Rome Defends a Classic Jewish Dish -- The New York Times (01 May 2018)
  
  
• Non-pork meals must be available for school lunch, rules French court -- The Guardian (28 August 2017)
  
  
• Vatican outlaws gluten-free bread for Holy Communion -- BBCNews (08 July 2017)
  
  
• #NotInMyName: Indians protest against 'beef lynching' -- BBCNews (28 June 2017)
  
  
• Muslims on India train assaulted 'because they ate beef' -- BBCNews (24 June 2017)
  
  
• Is India's ban on cattle slaughter 'food fascism'? -- BBCNews (02 June 2017)
  
  
• Beaten to death for being a dairy farmer -- BBCNews (07 April 2017)
  
  
• India Jains say 'many children have fasted' -- TS Sudhir, BBCNews (14 October 2016)
  
  
• India parents investigated after Jain girl dies from 68-day fast -- TS Sudhir, BBCNews (10 October 2016)
  
  
• Israel in food fight over kosher licensing -- BBCNews (09 October 2016)
  
  
• Islamophobia — and the demand for halal food — are on the rise in the US -- Khushbu Shah, Food.Mic (15 September 2016)
  
  
• Paris restaurant 'refuses to serve Muslim women' -- BBCNews (28 August 2016)
  
  
• Anger over raid on Indonesian food stall -- BBCNews (16 June 2016)
  
  
• Canaanites Sacrificed Animals From Egypt 5,000 Years Ago, Archaeologists Find -- Haaretz (21 June 2016)
  
  
• For the First Time in 800 Years, Rice and Beans Are Kosher for Passover -- Smithsonian (21 April 2016)
  
  
• Last Supper Menu: Stew, Lamb, Wine...More -- Discovery News (24 March 2016)
  
  
• The Trouble with Iowa: Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses -- Richard Manning, Harper's Magazine (February 2016)
  
  
• Dispute over prayer breaks divides Muslim meatpacking workers -- MPRNews (14 January 2016)
  
  
• Apocalypse Chow: We tried televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food' -- MPRNews (03 December 2015)
  
  
• Why The Pig Is The Most Loved And Most Loathed Animal On The Plate -- NPR (20 July 2015)
  
  
• Eating disorders at Ramadan: One teenager's experience -- BBCNews (13 July 2015)
  
  
• The incredibly strict diet of a Jain monk -- BBC (24 March 2015)
  
  
• Buddhist music 'boosts rice crop' -- BBCNews (10 September 2014)
  
  
• From Silk Tunics to Relics: Development of Early Relic Worship -- Science Daily (02 September 2014)
  
  
• Kosher Soul: Michael W. Twitty on Freedom, Diversity, and the Passover Table -- CHOW (10 April 2014)
  
  
• Religions Asking If Test-Tube Burgers Allow Them to Keep the Faith -- Reuters (09 August 2013)
  
  
• How a Distaste for 'Pagan Food' First Put the British Off Horsemeat -- Telegraph (21 February 2013)
  
  
• A fishy tale of Christianity in Ancient Rome -- Times Online (11 April 2009)

• Anthropophagy
  
  
• Bell, Rudolph M. Holy Anorexia. University Of Chicago Press, 1987.
  
  
• Bynum Walker, Caroline. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California Press, 1988.
  
  
• Constable, Olivia Remie. "Food and Meaning: Christian Understandings of Muslim Food and Food Ways in Spain, 1250–1550." Viator 44, no. 3 (2013): 199-235.
  
  
• Cooper, John. Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1993.
  
  
• DeTurris Poust, Mary. Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God. Ave Maria Press, 2012.
  
  
• Essig, Mark. Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig. NY: Basic Books, 2015.
  
  
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. NY: The Free Press, 2002.
  
  
• Fischer, Johan . The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
  
  
• Fox, Robin. "Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective," Oxford, UK: Social Issues Research Center, pp. 1-22.
  
  
• Freidenreich, David M. Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
  
  
• Garrett, Catherine. Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  
  
• Hanh, Thich Nhat, and Lilian Cheung. Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life. NY: Harper-Collins, 2010.
  
  
• Harris, Patricia, David Lyon, and Sue McLaughlin. 2005. The Meaning of Food: The Companion to the PBS Televisio Series Hosted by Marchs Samuelsson. Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot, 2005.
  
  
• Hedgepeth, William. The Hog Book. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
  
  
• It’s Time for a New Relationship With Food -- Leo Babauta
  
  
• Horwitz, Richard P. Hog Ties: What Pigs Tell Us About America. NY: St. Martin's, 1998.
  
  
• Jacob, Heinrich Eduard. Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History. Skyhorse, 2007.
  
  
• Jotischky, Andrew. A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food & Fasting in the Middle Ages. Continuum, 2011.
  
  
• Jung, L. Shannon. Sharing Food: Christian Practices for Enjoyment. Fortress, 2006.
  
  
• Lelwica, Michelle Mary. Starving For Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women. Oxford University Press, 2002.
  
  
• Luard, Elisabeth. Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004 [2001].
  
  
• Neel, Douglas E. and Joel A. Pugh. The Food and Feasts of Jesus: Inside the World of First Century Fare, with Menus and Recipes. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
  
  
• Patterson, Barbara AB, and Shirley M. Banks. "Christianity and Food: Recent Scholarly Trends." Religion Compass 7, no. 10 (2013): 433-443.
  
  
• Peck, Alice. Bread, Body, Spirit: Finding the Sacred in Food. Skylight Paths, 2008.
  
  
• Rosenberger, Nancy R. Seeking Food Rights: Nation, Inequality and Repression in Uzbekistan. Wadsworth, 2012.
  
  
• Salatin, Joel. The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs. NY: Faith Works, 2016.
  
  
• "The Sensual and the Spiritual in the World of Food," Ch. 2 of Bringéus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001.
  
  
• Simoons, Frederick J. Eat not this flesh: food avoidances from prehistory to the present, 2nd Ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
  
  
• von Poser, Anita. Foodways and Empathy: Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. NY: Berghahn, 2013.
  
  
• Weiss, Brad. Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
  
  
• Wilkins, John. M. and Shaun Hill. Food in the Ancient World. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
  
  
• Wirzba, Norman. Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  
  
• World Religions
  
  
  • Buddhist
  • Christianity
    • Catholic
      • Eucharist
      • Proscriptions
        • fasting
  • Hindu
  • Islam
    • Ramadan
    • Proscriptions
      • halal
      • Haraam
      • Islamic dietary laws
    • Food According to Quran and Sunnah -- Muttaqun OnLine
  • Jewish
    • Seder
    • Proscriptions
      
      
  • ritual anthropophagy see Anthropophagy

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Adam and Eve (1507)

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Karris, Robert J. Eating Your Way Through Luke's Gospel.
Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2006.

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