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Why Do We Eat With Our Hands?

Why Do We Eat With Our Hands?

So recently we were having our dinner, and my youngest Dhiyan aged 4 said to me…”Mummy why is it when we have Indian food we eat with our hands and when we eat other types of food we use spoons, knives and forks!!”. Good question when I am telling him to use a fork to eat his spaghetti, yet when having roti and rice and curry at home he happily eats with his hands!.

So off course I had to explore this questions The Jai Jais way…. Why do we eat with our hands?