Soups made with cream and mushrooms are much older than the canned variety. Ancient Italian (Salsa colla) and French (Béchamel) cream sauces, and soups based on them have been made for many hundreds of years. Cream of mushroom soup is a simple type of soup where a basic roux is thinned with cream or milk […]
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Fasting in Religions
Transpersonal psychotherapy has been called a blending of spiritual traditions and modern psychology. Fasting has used in major religions for spiritual, physiological or psychological purposes. Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity utilized fasting for purification, health, penitence, mourning, in preparation for marriage and initiations, and to develop magical powers. The following are examples of fasting practices […]