Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
Food & Faith featured in Morung Express– Northeast India
Writing about sacred food helped me figure out my faith: Shoba Narayan FEATURED NEWS 28th November 2020 By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, November 28 (IANS): Award-winning author and columnist Shoba Narayan is a graduate from the Columbia Journalism School with a Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship and writes on food, travel, fashion, and art and culture for a slew of International and Indian publications like the Conde Nast Traveller, NYT and Brunch. All her four books are firmly rooted in Indian culture, as is her latest offering, "Food & Faith - A Pilgrim's Journey Through India", (HarperCollins) that she says actually [...]
Food & Faith discussion at the Bangalore Literature Festival
Please click below on the right for my conversation with Mani Rao at the Bangalore Literature Festival held at the BIC premises. Also below is a podcast based on the conversation. 81. Food and Faith (with Shoba Narayan and Mani Rao) Food, belief and identities SUBSCRIBE APPLE PODCASTS GOOGLE PODCASTS SPOTIFY STITCHER CASTBOX OVERCAST RSS
Food & Faith: Vogue Magazine feature
CULTURE & LIVING This new culinary book builds a connection between food and religions in India BY SONAL VED 27 DECEMBER 2020 Food and Faith by Shoba Narayan deep dives into this subject In India, you can’t separate food from faith. If the 29 diverse varieties of Indian cuisines, each coming from one state in the country, are not enough, we also have recipes that the temples and shrines in India dole out. Food and Faith, a new food book by writer Shoba Narayan spotlights many of them. We chat with the author to [...]
Food & Faith: Book Review in Medium.
Book By Its Cover- Food and Faith Munmun Mohanty 13 hours ago·3 min read Having been an ardent reader of her columns, I knew exactly I had to expect from this book. Halfway through the book, I knew my expectations were misplaced.In a way the book and the anecdotes EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS. The author describes her rendezvous with 15 iconic places of worship and tries to understand the nexus between faith and life. She has written this with an open mind. Although seemingly she does not subscribe to certain ideas but she keeps her [...]
Conversation with Litt Live
The next Literature Live! Brightness of Books is a mouth-watering one. The book by Shoba Narayan is called Food & Faith: A Pilgrim's Journey Through India, and its central theme is prasad (or prasadam). As children, we looked forward to pujas for the food that followed; in that respect at least, some of us have not grown up! So, to start with, I shall feast on the book. The writing of Food & Faith took Shoba all over India. She will talk about her experiences and the underlying philosophy behind religious offerings with Deepa Krishnan, the well known [...]
Food & Faith featured in HT Smartcast Podcast
The contradictory impulse. Where you write pretty much in solitude. And then offer it to the world through talks and conversations. I lost an MFA degree because I couldn't reconcile this contradiction but that is a tale for another day. Here are some events around the book. Click here to listen to the podcast Part 1 Click here to listen to the podcast Part 2
Food & Faith: Feature in The Hindu Metroplus
Feature about Food & Faith The Hindu Metroplus Food is an inherent part of India’s places of worship. In her new book, Shoba Narayan delves into the making of prasadams, langars and more India’s places of worship and their different foods, all in one book Krithika R DECEMBER 05, 2020 14:30 IST As a young child, tagging behind my grandmother, I would ask why her puliyogare and chakkara pongal tasted different from that made in the temple she visited. “Because it was made with devotion and blessed by the god,” she [...]
Food & Faith excerpted in Condenast Traveller
‘Hinduism, like many great religions, is about feasting and fasting, praying and eating prasadam’ Shoba Narayan's new book delves into the many ways food and belief are intertwined with our identities Shoba Narayan PUBLISHED: NOV 21, 2020 | 17:28:35 IST A preiest cooks prasad at a temple. Photo: Frank Bienewald / Alamy Stock Photo “In no other culture does faith play out in as colourful and traditional a fashion as in India. In our country’s places of worship, we find rich myths, ancient traditions, cultural touchstones and delicious food that are offered to the Gods and [...]
Food and Faith flies out to the world
Shoba Narayan approaches faith through perhaps its most primal and nourishing aspect: food. She partakes of sacred food in shrines across India and writes about the intimate yet powerful connection between food and faith.
Are wine terms pretentious?
Are wine terms pretentious? My column for Sommelier India Palate is a term that sounds pompous but really isn’t. In fact, it is the simplest way by which you can decide what wines you like. Some of it is practical or logical and some of it is just you. Being vegetarian, my taste veers towards aromatic, dry and off-dry, cool-climate wines. Low alcohol content (under 12%) is nice to have but not always possible, particularly in New World wines. After trying out several, these are my current picks. [...]