Description: Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet : Eating With the World in Mind, Paperback by Slate, Nico, ISBN 0295744960, ISBN-13 9780295744964, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his active resistance 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-purification 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 twenty-first-century food debates and the need to build healthier and more equitable global food systems.
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Book Title: Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet : Eating With the World in M
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet : Eating with the World in Mind
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Public Health, General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Social Activists, Diet & Nutrition / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Length: 8.7 in
Author: Nico Slate
Subject Area: Political Science, Cooking, Social Science, Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Item Width: 7 in
Series: Global South Asia Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback