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