Contents: Acknowledgments; Foreword. Introduction; Part 1: Health - the six assumptions; Why do we eat; Metabolism; Our doors to the world: vision, smell, taste; The dance of life; Part 2: Content of Food: Composition Tables; Complete protein foods traditionally eaten around the world- the meats; The Fat containing Foods; Water, source of life or instrument of powar; Part 3: Grains, Roots and Tubers: The forgotten grains. Sorghum, millets, teff; The “official” carbohydrates: rice, corn, wheat; The pseudo-cereals: quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat; Roots and tubers. The non-grain carbohydrates; Vegetarianism; The great Legume family; Land Vegetables; Sea Vegetables; Part 4: Changing Lifestyles: Globalisation or “old” ways ?; Baby foods. Commercial or Traditional ? ; When Food turns from giver of Life to giver of illness; Street Foods become Fast Foods; The legends around Fruits - the old legends and the contemporary ones; How our emotions affect food choices - our own, our children’s and the family’s; Recipes for the heart. Food the connect with the forgotten child within us; The tragedy for autoimmune disease when we silence our human “body-ness”; Of Food and Festivals..stories from my Maharashtrian heart; Conclusion; General Notes; References; Glossary.