January 7, 2024 — Christina Ward with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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This episode features better audio and fewer ads: And now for something completely different: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Christina Ward, an author, editor, and seeker. She is also the Vice President and Editor of Feral House, a publisher noted for their books on outré topics. The main topic of discussion is her book, "Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and New Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat." Religious beliefs have been the source of food "rules" since Pythagoras told his followers not to eat beans (they contain souls), Kosher and Halal rules forbade the shrimp cocktail (shellfish are scavengers, or maybe God just said "no"). A long-ago Pope forbade Catholics from eating meat on Fridays (fasting to atone for committed sins). Rules about eating are present in nearly every American belief, from high-control groups that ban everything except air to the infamous strawberry shortcake that sated visitors to the Oneida Community in the late 1800s. Even the followers of the Heaven's Gate cult had specific rules about food consumption. Ward's book also features over 75 recipes from religious and communal groups tested and updated for modern cooks.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:02.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:26.6	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:30.6	Ever so often, Tim and I get notes from people on X or Facebook or whatever saying that we do UFOs too much.
0:41.3	Ah, another flying saucer episode. How could you do that?
0:45.3	And what we find is you may bring on a researcher who covers a lot of other stuff for you,
0:49.3	where she is after Bigfoot or ghosts and such.
0:53.3	But somehow, UFOs do still get in the picture because they can consider that there are
1:02.4	lots of different types of strange things going on.
1:05.9	So it's not as if we can escape UFOs.
1:08.9	But today, I don't think there's any way we can even begin to bring up
1:14.0	UFOs because we're going to talk about food. But not just any kind of food, holy food,
1:21.7	which has a subtitle, Recipes and Food Ways from Cults, communes, and new religious movements.
1:28.8	The guest is Christina Ward, and she is a publisher, editor, and obviously a cook.
1:36.6	Welcome Christina to the Paracast.
1:39.6	Oh, thank you so much.
1:40.9	I'm thrilled to chat with you and Tim today.
1:43.7	This is going to be fun.
1:45.4	It really is, and I should put my cards on the table here before we talk about food.
1:50.7	And that is, I grew up in a Jewish family, but a Jewish family that passed the first generation
1:56.2	of immigrants was not super devout. So my mom, for example, would make me a BLT sandwich, which is hardly kosher.
2:04.7	Now, I also should say as far as being a foodie, I enjoy different cuisines,
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