Things as they are
Against all that propaganda for fancy eating and plain cooking, I hope to persuade you to cook fancy and just plain eat. First of…
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The color of cuisine
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2008, Jacque Rowe Fields reflects on…
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You will, of course, find well-stocked produce sections in the chain grocery stores that sell pasteurized cider. But they sell far more of the…
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Preserving the harvest
In small, rural communities in Haiti, farmers have bushels of fruit that they are unable to bring to market in the cities before the…
Read MoreDestruction continues
In the earliest writings we find that the prophet and scholar alike have lamented the loss of soils and have warned people of the…
Read MoreHow to Serve a Sandhill Crane
Yesterday’s teepees watched, Their ill-used, tawdry facades rising To purchase a collective forgetfulness, As we tumbled from the van, gasping In the freer air…
Read MoreSustaining relationships
Eating with others is more than just a symbol of friendship, of belonging, of mutual trust—it is a living metaphor for our connection with…
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Feasting in the dark of night
I cherish the rhythm of sharing meals with others, be it the simplest meals of black beans and rice to the most festal Sabbath…
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Community Lunch
Allegan, Michigan (2015) The First Presbyterian Church of Allegan started the Community Lunch in 2011. It slowly grew and was supported through grant funding,…
Read MoreThe least
I really only love God as much as the person I love the least. Dorothy Day qtd. in What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey…
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