Was isSt Religion?

Cooking and eating play a significant role in all five world religions. A young team of practicing Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus provides an intimate glimpse into the festivals, rituals, regulations, and stories of their faith through selected recipes. With stylish, inviting images, well-researched background information, and delicious firsthand recipes, this interfaith cookbook reveals why some foods are blessed, sacrificed, or ritually consumed, while others are considered impure and strictly forbidden. In the tension between the unifying and dividing elements of food, the reader is taken on a culinary journey through multi-religious Switzerland, discovering what, when, and how religion is expressed through food in this country. The initiator of the interfaith cookbook is the Jewish Community of Zurich, celebrating its 150th anniversary.