Bless This Food: Four Seasons of Menus, Recipes and Table Graces [Paperback]

Julia M Pitkin (Author), George Grant Dr. (Author), Karen B Grant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2005

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 occasions—traditional gatherings, religious celebrations, ethnic festivals, life passages, and get-togethers 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 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.

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"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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Julia M. Pitkin, editor-in-chief of Cumberland House Hearthside Books, has edited more than thirty cookbooks, including Specialties of the House, a comprehensive country inn and bed-and-breakfast cookbook. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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

George Grant is director of the King's Meadow Study Center, teaching pastor at Christ Community Church (PCA), and instructor at Franklin Classical School. The author of more than fifty books, including The Christian Almanac, he is married to Karen Grant. They live on a small farm in Middle Tennessee.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581824815
• ISBN-13: 978-1581824810
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,955,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love the themes and the food is incredible, October 27, 2009

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This review is from: Bless This Food: Four Seasons of Menus, Recipes and Table Graces (Paperback)

I have *A LOT* of cookbooks and there is definitely a space on my shelf for this one. The food is off the charts good. It's special occasion food, and probably not for a beginner cook just starting out as many of the recipes take some time to prepare. If you want to your guests to rave about your cooking, check this cookbook out! My favorite recipe is the Herb Cheesecake appetizer- a real hit.

2.0 out of 5 stars A Disappointment, January 8, 2009

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This review is from: Bless This Food: Four Seasons of Menus, Recipes, and Table Graces (Hardcover)

I had great hopes for this book, but while many of the recipes and menus are appealing, I found it frustrating to apply them. There is no indication of how many the menus are intended to serve and the recipes within the menus are listed as making different servings. There was little discussion of the events that these menus are to be connected with and frequently little apparent connection between the event and the food. Many of the graces are quite long and not what I would consider appropriate.