Let's talk about the dead.

In Buddhism, there's the Oban Festival where food is placed upon altars for the return

of ancestral spirits.

In India, Hindu priests offer sweet meats and other auspicious treats during a cremation.

We bury pharaohs with food.

We celebrate the day of the dead, and we even pour out a drink for fallen friends and

family.

Regardless of culture, time or place, we humans around the world all strangely have

rights or rituals of death which involve food.

So why is that?

Well, to talk more about one of these foods for the departed rituals, we have today reporter,

author, and avid eater, Marud Gupta.

Hey, Marud, how you doing?

Hi there, very well.

Thanks for having me.

And I agree.

It is fascinatingly strange how food is such an integral part of the death ceremonies

of so many cultures around the world.

But then it's not really because food is just such an amazing thing.

So I understand, Marud, you wrote an entire book about this.

It's called Food of the Gods, right?

Yeah, I wrote a travel narrative called Bhagavan Kippa Kavan or Food of the Gods.

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