{"id":11400,"date":"2019-11-22T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/indian-city-cow-dung-ban-leaves-bitter-taste-for-street-food-vendors-bihar"},"modified":"2019-11-22T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:22:10","slug":"indian-citys-cow-dung-ban-leaves-a-bitter-taste-for-street-food-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11400","title":{"rendered":"Indian city&#8217;s cow dung ban leaves a bitter taste for street food vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stall owners fear for livelihoods, saying burning dung essential to flavour of Bihari favourites<\/p>\n<p>The tantalising scent of freshly cooked dough rises from Brij Bihari Rai\u2019s food stall outside Patna zoo. Sitting on top of the grill is Rai\u2019s specialty, litti chokha, stuffed wheat flour balls tossed in ghee and served with mashed aubergine or potato on the side. But there is another ingredient, Rai says, that is essential to the dish\u2019s distinctive flavour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCow dung flame, smoke and ashes add a special taste to this dish and that\u2019s why food lovers rush to our stall to relish the food,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/indian-city-cow-dung-ban-leaves-bitter-taste-for-street-food-vendors-bihar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stall owners fear for livelihoods, saying burning dung essential to flavour of Bihari favouritesThe tantalising scent of freshly cooked dough rises from Brij Bihari Rai\u2019s food stall outside Patna zoo. Sitting on top of the grill is Rai\u2019s specialty, lit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,65,311,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-environment","category-food","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}