Dietetics

Abstract

As the three seasons were in perfect seasons, this land of the Tamils, full of living air, was divided into five types of land by the people who lived here. The Tamils ate the food that was grown, grown and available in the climatic conditions of the five types of lands. Unlike foreign countries, the land of the Tamils is neither a snowy region nor a place that is cold for six months. Therefore, the Tamils did not have to fight against nature. Nature gave everything. The Tamils worshipped nature as a deity. The Tamil society, which was cultured in terms of civilization, language, art and culture of the world, would have been the first intellectual race to cook and eat. That is why they divided food into vegetarian, non-vegetarian and fruit-based food. Not only that, the Tamil society combined food with dignity and self-respect, divided the way of eating food and cooked Dharma in food. Nālaḍiyar, one of the books on Pathinenkeezhkanakku, describes the food of the Tamils, the way of eating, where to eat and where not to eat, when the food tastes good, under what circumstances it will lose its taste, and the virtue of feeding the poor.