Lauren Winner's Thoughts on Food

In response to this week's topic of "Food:Eating with Jesus," I looked up the author of one of our previous studies, Lauren Winner, and found a wonderful excerpt from her book Wearing God, which was published last spring. You can read the excerpt titled "Bread" here: http://imagejournal.org/article/bread/.  Winner begins with an exploration of God's concern for food and continues with the history of white bread, the meaning of fried chicken in the African American community, and the development of eating disorders.

"It would not be a gross exaggeration to say that the Bible is a culinary manual, concerned from start to finish with how to eat, what to eat, when to eat. Food is the first way the Bible shows the God intends to provide for humanity. ... And food is the shorthand for our disobedience..." 

I recommend the entire article. I am struck with how food is both entirely mundane and also so very infused with spiritual, cultural, and emotional meaning.