01-12-11 - The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God
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- Category: Authors
- Published: Monday, 10 January 2011 08:00
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 both the presence and absence of food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation. Click here to listen to Brock's interview with Leslie Leyland Fields author of "The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God", from this week's 9:00am Wednesday Bookmark, brought to you by Salem Storehouse!
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All bring a keen eye and palate to the larger questions of the role of food--both its presence and its absence--in the life of our bodies and spirits. 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. 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."
