The spirit of food : thirty-four writers on feasting and fasting toward God / Spirit of food : 34 writers on feasting and fasting toward God edited by Leslie Leyland Fields. - xxv, 257 pages ; 23 cm

"Published in partnership with The other journal, Seattle, Washington"--title page verso.

Wild fruit / Patty Kirk -- Late October tomatoes / Brian Volck -- The communion of saints / Jeanne Murray Walker -- The land that is us / Ann Voskamp -- For a sweet New Year / Margaret Hathaway -- The heavenly onion / Robert Farrar Capon -- A way of loving / Stephan and Karen Baldwin -- Go feed people / Chef Gary LeBlanc -- And she took flour : cooking lessons from Supper of the Lamb / Denise Frame Harlan -- In praise of hollandaise / Chef Fred Raynaud -- Tasting the (animal) kingdom / Alissa Herbaly Coons -- Things that fall and things that stand / Nancy J. Nordenson -- Fitting food / Lauren Winner -- Choice cuisine / Kirstin Vander Giessen-Rietsma -- Cooking chicken wat / Deborah Leiter Nyabuti -- The soul of soul food / Jacqueline Rhodes -- The pleasures of eating / Wendell Berry -- Table blessings / Kelton Cobb -- Filled to brokeness / Gina Ochsner -- Fasting toward home / Amy Frykholm -- My (self righteous) food-stamp fast / LaVonne Neff -- The joy of the fast / Caroline Langston -- This is my body / Suzanne Wolfe -- Famine / Thomas Maltman -- Common elements / Mary Kenagy Mitchell -- Eucharist / Alexander Schmemman -- Soul food / Luci Shaw -- A blessing for the rice cracker / Hannah Faith Notess -- On Charon's wharf / Andre Dubus -- Aunt Virgi's feasts / Vinita Hampton Wright -- The Church potluck, seriously / Jeremy Clive Huggins -- Subsistence feasting / K.C. Lee -- The banqueting table / Laura Bramon Good -- Making the perfect loaf of bread / Leslie Leyland Fields

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Food--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Dinners and dining--Religious aspects--Christianity.