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18
Nov
NYT on a shortage of coconut pickers in the southern state of Kerala: “Unlike northern states, where caste remains a force and education remains out of reach for many, Kerala has a 100 percent literacy rate, and the shackles of caste are looser than ever.
But this has created a crisis of its own: If no one wants to pluck coconuts anymore, how will this industry survive?”
23
Sep
What we choose to eat or refuse to eat, and how we eat it defines us as much as our culture and language. If we are what we eat, then the other is what he is because of what he eats or refuses to eat. Cuisine creates a community; it also keeps communities apart. Food defines, both positively an negatively. Unfortunately […] the dialectics of food, as culture, as cause and effect of socio-economic changes, as history, has not exercised the minds of most scholars.
