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Introduction | p. xi |
The Garden: Acts of Faith | p. 1 |
Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi: The Blossom Gives Way to the Fruit | p. 6 |
Meister Eckhart: The Seed of God | p. 7 |
Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis: Food as Sacrament | p. 8 |
The Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows: Lemon Love | p. 12 |
Alison Luterman: Every Piece of Fruit | p. 15 |
Kahlil Gibran: Speak to Us of Eating and Drinking | p. 16 |
Fish, Fowl, Flesh: Acknowledging Responsibility | p. 19 |
A Native American Blessing: Sacrifice | p. 24 |
From the Taittiriya Upanishad: Cycle | p. 25 |
Nancy Willard: A Wreath to the Fish | p. 26 |
Betty Fussell: On Murdering Eels and Laundering Swine | p. 28 |
Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi: Are They Kosher? | p. 34 |
Barbara Kingsolver: Free Breakfast | p. 36 |
Jane Goodall: Tale of the Giveaway Buffalo | p. 38 |
Matthew 26:26: Blessing | p. 41 |
Michael Benedikt: The Beef Epitaph | p. 42 |
Barbara Tanner Angell: Deer Season | p. 44 |
Cooking: Taking Action | p. 47 |
Edward Espe Brown: How Could I Have Ever Known It Would Be Like This? | p. 51 |
Julius Lester: Braiding Challah | p. 53 |
Mary Beth Crain: Food and God: Cooking as a Spiritual Calling | p. 54 |
Lama Surya Das: Keep Cooking | p. 61 |
Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields: Flour, Water, and Determination | p. 62 |
Serving: Nurturing | p. 65 |
Buddhist Meal Gatha | p. 69 |
Martin Buber: His Table an Altar | p. 70 |
Brother Lawrence: Love Is Everything | p. 71 |
Guru Gobind Singh: To Feed a Hungry Mouth Is to Feed the Guru | p. 72 |
Diane Ackerman: Accepting | p. 73 |
Zen Master Eihei Dogen: How to Share All Offerings | p. 74 |
Jacqueline Kramer: Warm Sweet Milk | p. 76 |
Amanda Cook: Sugar-Frosted Memories | p. 79 |
Eating: Being Present | p. 85 |
Karyn D. Kedar: There Is Nothing More Profound | p. 90 |
Julia S. Kasdorf: Onion, Fruit of Grace | p. 91 |
Wendell Berry: The Pleasures of Eating | p. 92 |
Marc David: How We Eat | p. 96 |
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei: Just Enough | p. 98 |
Bich Minh Nguyen: The Plum's Eye | p. 104 |
Fasts: Letting Go | p. 109 |
Omid Safi: Ramadan, Date Omelets, and Global Compassion | p. 113 |
Rabbi Irwin Kula and Vanessa L. Ochs: A Meditation on Fasting | p. 116 |
Ram Dass: Stuffing Our Egos | p. 117 |
Helen Nearing: Casting Off His Body | p. 119 |
Rabi'a al-`Adawiyya: Miracle Onion | p. 122 |
Jessica Swift: I Can Eat Chocolate for Breakfast | p. 123 |
Feasts: Reaping | p. 125 |
Rabbi Rami Shapiro: Heaven and Hell | p. 129 |
Diana Abu-Jaber: I've Heard Angels at Dinner | p. 130 |
Lynne Meredith Schreiber: Inheriting the Earth | p. 134 |
Mary Rose O'Reilley: Key Lime Pie | p. 138 |
Joan Chittister, osb: Table Fellowship | p. 140 |
Compost: No Beginning and No End | p. 143 |
The Qur'an 6:141: He Does Not Love the Wasters | p. 147 |
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki: A Worm in the Rice | p. 148 |
Taittiriya Upanishad Part III: Food Is God | p. 149 |
Kristen Wolf: The Parable of the Squash | p. 150 |
Haven Kimmel: Diner | p. 155 |
Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon: One Beautiful Meal | p. 160 |
Grace: Communion | p. 163 |
Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji: The Path | p. 167 |
Laurie Colwin: Feeding the Multitudes | p. 168 |
Lawrence Raab: Since You Asked | p. 172 |
Elias Canetti: Potlatch | p. 174 |
Lynn L. Caruso: Communion | p. 175 |
Sara Miles: Crossing II | p. 176 |
Grace Paley: Peacemeal | p. 179 |
Mary Oliver: Rice | p. 181 |
Ways to Share Your Meal | p. 183 |
Acknowledgments | p. 185 |
Credits | p. 187 |
About the Contributors | p. 191 |
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