![Slate Cosmic Cookery: How fringe religious groups helped launch the health-food movementJune 1, 2011
Near the buffet at Annam Brahma (Sanskrit for “food is God”), a white-robed Bengali man played the flute on a muted TV. As I sat down to eat vegetarian curries and a fresh, crunchy salad, I noticed his face on the back of my waiter’s white hoodie. Opposite my table, there he was again: hoisting a barbell that was mostly weight and not much bar. The photo’s caption: “Sri Chinmoy lifts 3½ tons with one arm at the age of 55.” A peace-and-love-preaching guru, Chinmoy died in 2007, but virtually every patch of the airy natural-foods restaurant in Queens, N.Y., was covered with his image, his books, or his artwork. There was even a colorful doodle on my mug of chai—along with the words smiles and dreams and his looping signature. …
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Cosmic Cookery: How fringe religious groups helped launch the health-food movement
June 1, 2011
Near the buffet at Annam Brahma (Sanskrit for “food is God”), a white-robed Bengali man played the flute on a muted TV. As I sat down to eat vegetarian curries and a fresh, crunchy salad, I noticed his face on the back of my waiter’s white hoodie. Opposite my table, there he was again: hoisting a barbell that was mostly weight and not much bar. The photo’s caption: “Sri Chinmoy lifts 3½ tons with one arm at the age of 55.” A peace-and-love-preaching guru, Chinmoy died in 2007, but virtually every patch of the airy natural-foods restaurant in Queens, N.Y., was covered with his image, his books, or his artwork. There was even a colorful doodle on my mug of chai—along with the words smiles and dreams and his looping signature. …
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