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Is there any known reason why Eastern and Western cooking traditions generally diverged on steaming vs baking, respectively?

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How did Christianity diverge from Judaism and Islam on the topic of eating pork? It's the only one of the major Abrahamic religions that's okay with it, which seems pretty odd given their common lineage and the fact that it came into being after Judaism/before Islam.

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Is there any known reason why Eastern and Western cooking traditions generally diverged on steaming vs baking, respectively?	161
How did Christianity diverge from Judaism and Islam on the topic of eating pork? It's the only one of the major Abrahamic religions that's okay with it, which seems pretty odd given their common lineage and the fact that it came into being after Judaism/before Islam.	103