Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Eating with the World in Mind
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2019
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-487-7 (ISBN)
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-487-7 (ISBN)
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Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in coordination with his dietary experiments.
His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his opposition to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and imperialism. Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi’s life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means of self-purifi cation and social protest during India’s struggle for independence.
What became the pillars of Gandhi’s diet – vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food, and fasting – anticipated many of the debates in twenty-fi rst-century food studies, and presaged the necessity of building healthier and more equitable food systems.
His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his opposition to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and imperialism. Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi’s life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means of self-purifi cation and social protest during India’s struggle for independence.
What became the pillars of Gandhi’s diet – vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food, and fasting – anticipated many of the debates in twenty-fi rst-century food studies, and presaged the necessity of building healthier and more equitable food systems.
Nico Slate is professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India and editor of Black Power beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement.
Timeline of Gandhi’s Life with Food
Chapter 1 Salt
Chapter 2 Chocolate
Chapter 3 Goat Meat and Peanut Milk
Chapter 4 Raw, Whole, Real
Chapter 5 Natural Medicine
Chapter 6 Farming
Chapter 7 Fasting
Conclusion Mangoes and Mahatmas
Epilogue The Gandhi Diet
Recipes from Gandhi’s Diet
Photo gallery
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.07.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Johannesburg |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77614-487-2 / 1776144872 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77614-487-7 / 9781776144877 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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