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Feasts, Fasts & Religion

The link between religion and feasting, and how food branded as religious has been a marketing triumph in much of the world. Manuela Saragosa presenting.

Manuela Saragosa explores the link between religion and feasting, and hears how food branded as religious has been a marketing triumph in much of the world.

Elizabeth Hotson gets a kosher cocktail and hears how kosher is mainstream especially in the US – even for non-religious consumers. Plus, Katy Watson in the tiny Pacific island nation of Tonga explains why greed is good and how feasting has damaged the country’s health.

(Picture: Bread and wine; Credit: Andreas Saldavs/Thinkstock)

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18 minutes

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Fri 23 Dec 2016 19:06GMT

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