Questions of Taste Over Chocolate Deities
How to See Yourself As You Really Are (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It could be something religious, or simply a matter of taste... I leave the decision to you. ----- By ANDY NEWMAN As religious question go, it is a relatively small one. But inevitably, it must be asked: Is it O.K.to eat a chocolate statuette of your favorite holy figure? The matter arose at Bond Street Chocolate, a boutique in Manhattan that traffics in detailed figurines of Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh. Last month, an organization called Universal Society of Hinduism issued a demand: “Upset Hindus urge withdrawal of Lord Ganesh -shaped edible chocolate.” The owner of the store, Lynda Stern, was puzzled. For more than five years, she has been selling the gold-dusted Ganesh and his shelfmates, beside passion fruit bonbons and chocolate- coated wasabi peas, with barely a whiff of controversy. In the news release, the society’s president, Rajan Zed, wrote that Ganesh...