Bless This Food: Four Seasons of Menus, Recipes, and Table Graces - Hardcover

Pitkin, Julia M.; Grant, Karen B; Grant, George E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1888952059 ISBN 13: 9781888952056

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

A year's menus and recipes for almost any occasion, along with table prayers, food customs, and religious and cultural traditions. Features national holidays, family gatherings, religious celebrations, ethnic festivals, and get-togethers with friends.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

"Bless This Food" is a unique cookbook that combines wonderful menus and recipes with table prayers, food customs, and religious and cultural traditions. The menus are for many varied occasions--traditional national holidays, family gatherings, religious celebrations, ethnic festivals, life passages, and get-together's with friends.

Organized by seasons, "Bless This Food" is eclectic in its choice of cuisines-from 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 from which America's citizens have originated. The main religious celebrations of the Christian and Jewish traditions are included. The authors' own 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 Presley, "Bless This Food" acknowledges the sacred nature of the everyday pleasures of food and table.

About the Author

Julia M. Pitkin, Editor-in-Chief of Cumberland House Hearthside Books, is the editor and creator of more than twenty cookbooks, including "Specialties of the House," a comprehensive country inn and bed and breakfast cookbook. She lives in Nashville.

Karen B. Grant, educated in Antwerp and at the University of Houston, is active in women's ministries in the Presbyterian Church of America. She lives in Middle Tennessee.

George Grant is director of King's Meadow Study Center, editorial director of Highland Books, and author of more than three dozen books in the areas of history, theology, and the arts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1888952059
• ISBN 13: 9781888952056
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240