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rask3 said:There is a cooking tradition which avoids both onions and garlic. Both are considered to stimulate passions, though I can't figure out how these could do that. This cuisine is followed by many Brahmins (the upper caste in India). Maybe you could google and find out more about their cooking methods.
Rask
Rask, an aside: your post led me on a very interesting search for the derivation of the term "Boston Brahmin".
I'd always wondered what it literally meant ("the purest people" ) and where it came from (evidently, Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the phrase in an 1860 article for "Yankee Magazine", referring to the powerful families in Boston during that era).
Another curiosity satisfied!
Lee