Most of these rituals are gone, but the Tibetan Buddhists still do these elaborate butter carvings called tormas that are central to their spiritual practice. All of these cultures used butter in their worship practices. This is going back to the Sumerians 2,500 B.C., and the Vedic Aryans, the Druids, the Hindus, the Buddhists. I wasn't expecting to find that ancient cultures around the world used butter as a sacred tool for their spiritual practices. Can you tell us about that?Įlaine Khosrova: That subject was interesting and surprising for me, too. Melissa Clark: One of the surprises for me in reading your book was to learn about the connection between butter and religion. Contributor Melissa Clark talked with her about his discoveries. She has traveled the world researching her butter book. (Truthfully, there are a few recipes.) Elaine writes about food and is the former editor of Culture, a magazine all about cheese. Instead it is brimming with ritual, history, politics and science. You’d think that a book about butter would be filled with recipes, but that is exactly what Elaine Khosrova’s book Butter: A Rich History is not filled with.
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