![]() ![]() A Biblical Feast: Foods From the Holy Land features recipes that Morse has collected from the Near East-Mediterranean region presented in a context that allows readers to appreciate each dish's place in Biblical history. ![]() In a new cookbook, author Kitty Morse finds inspiration in the very foods that formed the cornerstone of these enduring spiritual traditions. Indeed, the Bible of Judeo-Christian religions overflows with episodes involving feasts, fasting, and famine because the ancients recognized the importance of food not only as nourishment, but also as part of the process leading to true spirituality. In the same spirit, on the most sacred of all Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, spiritual atonement comes through denial of the food which our mortal bodies need to maintain life. For Jews, no holiday galvanizes the community like Passover, which commemorates the deliverance from slavery in Egypt with a feast. For many branches of Christianity, redemption is achieved through eating the bread that symbolizes the body of Christ. But just as one bite causes the expulsion from Eden, so too does another lead to salvation. ![]() In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the fall from grace begins with a single event: Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge and thus become aware of their own bodies and their own awkward, embarrassed mortality. It is at once the root of human misery and the cup of human salvation. ![]()
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