Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind

by Nico Slate

Book Overview

Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his active resistance to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and imperialism.

Gandhi's Search for the Perfect...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295744952
• ISBN13: 9780295744957
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher