REL 135gx Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Black Pepper, Ayurveda, Ghee
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Types of categories and classifications applied to food. Pure/impure: to be eaten or not to be eaten. A standard list of tastes not unlike ours. How you ate the food: e. g. chewed, licked, etc. Taste is the special quality of the element water. Sense that required the objects perceived to be close to the body. You cannot taste from a distance as you can see from a distance. Organ of taste is the tongue: mouth = location of the kiss and the bite o. Sweet taste of lotus-fragrant mouths is sometimes celebrated in poetry. Lotus - often compared to mouth and feet. Not a set object it is compared to. Pleasant sounds are typically described as sweet. What you eat and do not eat is important. Food preferences are according to traditional ritual purity as handed by authoritative o texts and social traditions. Ethics of harming the things you eat and intoxicating properties of what you eat.
