Description

There’s lots to try, but you have all the time in the world, so take your jacket off. We have decadent feasts and church cookbooks; we have mid-century etiquette and down home hospitality; we’ve got the heavy fare, too—from addiction to agribusiness. There are plenty of cocktails and simmering sauces, and we’ll finish the night with some forbidden fruits (and, yes, fast food). It’s all there for the taking, really—and the blessing’s already been given! So, Prost! Salud! Amen and Amen!

Contents

A Free Lunch: the Spiritual Economics of the Church’s Most Cliché Ministry by CJ GREEN

The Confessional

Orthorexia: The New Etiquette by CARRIE WILLARD

A Poem by JOY ROULIER SAWYER

The Cheap Grace of Cheap Food by BENJAMIN SELF

For the Record: What Would You Eat If You Weren’t Afraid?

The Compleat Leftoeuvriére by ROBERT FARRAR CAPON

Modern Food, Moral Food: Our Interview with HELEN ZOE VEIT

For the Record: Ode to the Church Cookbook, On Our Bookshelf

In Praise of Excess by ETHAN RICHARDSON

Freedom Isn’t Free by CONNOR GWIN

A Poem by SARAH BROWN WEITZMAN

The Hospitality Sting by SARAH CONDON

I Eat Therefore I Am? by SCOTT JONES

For The Record: Capon’s Sauce Primer

The Curse of Eglon: Weight Loss Under the Weight of the Cross by BRYAN J.

A Poem by BRAD DAVIS

Champion of the Vernacular: Food Criticism in a Nation of Experts by DAVID PETERSON

Hungry for Religion: A Sermon by DAVID ZAHL