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Bless This Food: Four Seasons of Menus, Recipes And Table Graces
Bless This Food Four Seasons of Menus Recipes And Table Graces Author:Julia M. Pitkin, Karen Grant, George Grant Bless This Food is a unique menu cookbook that combines wonderful menus and recipes with table prayers, food customs, and religious and cultural traditions. The menus are for many occasionstraditional gatherings, religious celebrations, ethnic festivals, life passages, and get-togethers with friends. Organized by seasons, Bless ... more »This Food is eclectic in its choice of cuisinesfrom French, Italian, English, American, Jewish, and Irish to Native American, African American, and Hispanic. The occasions celebrated are also eclectic and culturally diverse, celebrating the many traditions of Americans. The main religious celebrations of the Christian and Jewish traditions are included. The authors' personal interests are reflected in their choices of such occasions as Winston Churchill's Birthday Breakfast, Claude Monet's Birthday, A Jane Austen Holiday Lunch, Robert Burns Night, and Blessings in Deed, in which a meal is prepared for another person or family. Beautifully and elegantly designed and illustrated with the sketches of Tonya Young, Bless This Food acknowledges the sacred nature of the everyday pleasures of food and table.« less