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Explains the cultural and religious basis for Ras Tafari cuisine, and includes recipes for beverages, entrees, soups, desserts, snacks, and cakes. n Rasta cooking the natural flavour of each dish is embellished through the use of spices and herbs which compliment the natural essence of the ingredients. All care should be taken to preserve the natural purity of ingredients used in the preparation of ‘Ital’ food. This caring should extend from the preparation and serving, to eating. For this reason the devout brethren of the Rastafari will use only utensils made from natural materials, stone, earthenware. The matching of herbs or spice with vegetable is the result of a long and skilfully laid tradition originating from the African ancestry and cultural heritage of the Rastafari.The herbs and spices are also fruits of the earth and are as such essential ingredients to the diet of the vital man.The most widely used of the spices is pepper, fresh ripe peppers. The most piquant of the spices.The most widely used herb is marijuana, use of which is prohibited by law in the UK and a number of other countries. It is, however, the strongest of the herbs, and in the tradition of the Rastafari unlimited by dish. It sweetens and embellishes all, baked, boiled, fried or stewed.The spirit of Rasta is everywhere. As western man has set himself against the many essentials at the nature from which he was born, so he yearns to find peace with the world, to arrest the destruction of things which are natural, of himself.Where better to halt the destruction but at the point where the body interfaces with nature, with the food we eat. Eat Rasta