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Paramadayala Nityananda Das: I wonder how many people in India need to force their children to take dahl, chickpea savories, and other food derived from beans. I suspect the number is low because I have never seen it required in western ISKCON Temples. At any rate, once kids try these, they love them. The situation is very different in much of the world- where Vedic cooking is uncommon. Children rate beans and vegetables from undesirable to abhorrent.<\/p>\n
I remember, as a child, taking a half hour to force down a few pinto beans (garnished with salt and maybe a drop of butter) before being allowed to leave the dinner table. This is not a mere anecdote. The parental admonishment \u201ceat your vegetables!\u201d has been a ubiquitous clich\u00e9 for untold generations. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations knows about the issue; therefore, they published a document \u201cHow to Get Kids to Eat Pulses\u201d. <\/p>\n
But, because of the coronavirus, there has been a boom in the bean business. I was surprised when I went to a U.S. grocery store, to stock up, and found the bean shelves virtually empty. I thought \u201cOther people are stocking up on beans also?\u201d Sure enough, I just read a NYT article about the boom. All over the U.S., shelves usually stocked with slow-selling beans are empty. One, shocked, bean farmer reportedly said, \u201cI used to be the loneliest vendor at the farmers market\u201d Some companies are seeing a 400% rise in demand. <\/p>\n
We can\u2019t expect this trend to last after the pandemic is over- it is an austerity measure. Of course, bean preparations are popular in some countries outside of India, South America for example. But (beyond the child resistance) among large groups of people in the U.S., and many other places, beans are bland and have a stigma as poor people\u2019s food. They are associated with food consumption during the Great Depression. In my locality, \u201cfeed um beans!\u201d is still a common insult. But that could change if people learned to make dahl, chickpea savories, and other bean foods. They are inexpensive, yet delicious and nutritious, some are in the gourmet category, and kids love them! The protein content makes them an ideal substitute for meat. Devotees should try to find ways to spread \u201cHigher Taste\u201d We can also flood the internet with YouTube cooking classes (as devotees). The \u201cHare Krishna\u2019s\u201d will become famous for causing beans the to be properly honored as distinguished, and virtuous, food. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Paramadayala Nityananda Das: I wonder how many people in India need to force their children to take dahl, chickpea savories, and other food derived from beans. I suspect the number is low because I have never seen it required in western ISKCON Temples. At any rate, once kids try these, they love them. The situation is very different in much of the world- where Vedic cooking is uncommon. Children rate beans and vegetables from undesirable to abhorrent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}