Nigeria, Feb. 27 -- "Hunger is the cry of a god and two gods do the humans worship - the head and the stomach .We know the body will survive without head Sustenance, but the Stomach, the god that rumbles and thunders when sacrifice is late, this God cannot be slighted." - Wole Soyinka

Salutations to the Gut is the title of an 84-page essay published over 40 years ago by Nigeria's Nobel Laureate in Literature, Wole Soyinka celebrating the splendour of Yoruba cuisine and gastronomic hedonism, how "the true hedonist has felt in every morsel the soul of the open kitchen", a witty, whimsical essay about the importance and the culture of food, indeed life itself. Soyinka wrote that "It is sad - daily the business of the world becomes more hurr...