The Kitchen Table

30 Mar 2014

Religion gets mixed up in the grill

Australia, Food, meat, Religion, This food is legal, Wine

Tal and Shannon get involved with the JOY Kitchen.

This is not a sign of the Apocalypse.

We get that no one expects your three favourite food-hounds, Christian, Patrick and Shannon to get in on the religious aspects of food but no one expected the Spanish Inquisition either. You’re going to have to move through your shock.

Today the team talk to Monash University religious researcher Tal Meretz, who occasionally appears on the programme Spirit Lounge, and lead off with the heavy subject of conversion through food.

We chat about food appropriation – how religious groups take a food item important to a culture and adopt it as a religious item. We roll into the debate about how genetic modification of foods may challenge religious rules, and then we talk about wine… on a Sunday during the day… no one is surprised.

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7 Apr 2014

Blaze of glory

Food, nutrition, Pacific, Sex, This food is legal

We’ve talked religion, we’ve talked politics and now the final taboo: sex. The Kitchen Table team split up and go out ...

1 Apr 2014

Rules for food because you need to be safe

Australia, Food, meat, Religion

Spirit Lounge's occasional guest Tal Meretz and Shannon Gillies discuss their personal food rules. They talk hygiene, fears of mystery meat ...

30 Mar 2014

Religion gets mixed up in the grill

Australia, Food, meat, Religion, This food is legal, Wine

[caption id="attachment_149" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Tal and Shannon get involved with the JOY Kitchen.[/caption] This is not a sign of the Apocalypse. We ...