Description Description: You are invited to a feast for the senses and the Spirit Thirty-Four adventurous Writers open their kitchens, their recipe files, and their hearts to illustrate the many unexpected ways that food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation.
Let all receive the riches of goodness.\' Taste and see, indeed." --Scott Cairns author of The Co.
As Saint John Chrysostom proclaims: \'The table is rich-laden; feast royally, all of you The calf is fatted; let no one go forth hungry Let all partake of the feast of faith.
This collection is a meal for the mind." --Mark Galli Senior Managing Editor Christianity Today "This is a gift to the Body of Christ--delicious prose and glistening dishes to assist the necessary recovery of our whole persons.
In a time of great interest and equal confusion over the place of food in our lives, this rich collection, which includes personal recipes, will delight the senses, feed the spirit, enlarge our understanding, and deepen our ability to "eat and drink to the glory of God." Featuring the writings of Robert Farrar Capon, Wendell Berry, Lauren Winner, Luci Shaw, Andre Dubus, Jeanne Murray Walker, Brian Volck, and many others, INCLUDING ORIGINAL RECIPIES Endorsements: "I\'m trying to resist the temptation to pun--describing this as a rich feast of essays, or essays one will relish with delight, or essays that one should savor, and so forth--but I can\'t.
Their essays take us to a Canadian wheat farm, a backyard tomato garden in Cincinnati, an organic farm in Maine; into a kosher kitchen, a line of Hurricane Katrina survivors as they wait to be fed, a church basement for a thirty-hour fast; inside the translucent layers of an onion that transport us to a meditation on heaven, to a church potluck, and to many other places and ways we can experience sacramental eating.
All bring a keen eye and palette to the larger questions of the role of food--both its presence and its absence--in the life of our bodies and spirits.
Description Description: You are invited to a feast for the senses and the Spirit Thirty-Four adventurous Writers open their kitchens, their recipe files, and their hearts to illustrate the many unexpected ways that food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation
