Offering Food (Sacred Foods)

Foods that are made to be offered to gods, spirits or the dead, such as haleem and harisa, bread of the dead, shinsen and zongzi. An entry belongs here when its article describes the dish as an offering placed before a deity, shrine or ancestor. The group page lists dishes with the same religious use, so a reader can compare how different communities mark fasts, feasts and offerings through food. Entries are placed by what their own article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group that its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.