Eating Heaven Spirituality at the Table edition by Simon Carey Holt Religion Spirituality eBooks
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Sitting down at a table to eat is an activity so grounded in the ordinary, so basic to the daily routines of life, we rarely ponder it beyond the simple inquiry, ‘What’s for dinner?’ However, scratch a little deeper and you discover in eating one of the most meaning-laden activities of our lives, one so immersed in human longing and relationship it’s a practice of sacred dimensions.
In this age of culinary infatuations, global food crises, celebrity chefs and Biggest Losers, the need to reflect more seriously upon eating is pressing.
A trained chef, teacher, social researcher, minister of religion and homemaker, Simon Carey Holt draws on experience and research to explore the role of eating in our search for meaning and community. To do so, he invites us to sit at the tables of daily life – from kitchen tables to backyard barbecues, from cafe tables to the beautifully set tables of our city's finest restaurants – and consider how our life at these tables interacts with our deepest values and commitments.
Eating Heaven Spirituality at the Table edition by Simon Carey Holt Religion Spirituality eBooks
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Eating Heaven Spirituality at the Table edition by Simon Carey Holt Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
Simon takes us from the kitchen table of his childhood, down the café-lined alleyways of Melbourne, into a suburban backyard in Footscray, back to the white-linen tables of Jacques Reymond, through the working kitchens of a chef, around our tables that celebrate life and death, to the tables that express our culture and history and finally to the communion table. For those who haven't read it, the book is part anecdote, part interview, part history lesson and part academic analysis of sociology, psychology and theology. Plus it gives you a great recipe at the end of each chapter - what more could you want in a book
The book is so personal, so Melbourne, so full of interesting information and so thoughtful in the conclusions drawn. It is great and well worth the investment of your time to read it
I loved this book. I read it slowly and savoured every bite. Each chapter focusses on one table - the kitchen table, the cafe table, the restaurant table, the table of communion, and so on - with stories, history and reflection on each. Even better, each chapter ends in a recipe reflecting the type of eating that happens at that particular table. The book is layered and rich, reflecting the author's myriad backgrounds of trained chef, sociologist, theologian and Baptist minister.
More than just a good read, this book reminds us of the gift of eating together, wherever we are, and in my household, this has had at least one effect it has returned us to a more intentional saying of grace. We've tried various things over the years, but it had become a rushed magic formula that one or another kid would gabble as they reached for the serving spoon, which was worse than not saying it at all. But after reading this book we've returned to saying grace properly whether with a candle and a longer responsive reading, with a minute's silence, or with held hands and a song. And we are all loving this grateful pause at the end of the day. Thank you.
Eating Heaven prompted me to think about where I most appreciate food and the tables that help me live life to the fullest. I love eggs and coffee as a treat to start the day. Carrot, celery, apple and ginger juice is my afternoon drink of choice. Our family dinners are admittedly a mixed bag, but at their best help us reconnect and laugh together. And our church AuburnLife is at its best circled around the communion table praying for one another, lunching together after Sunday Stuff down the road at Hotel Hawthorn, or sharing hospitality with international students at Auburn Hub on Tuesdays. In fact, when I think about the places that are most life-giving for me, and where I most fruitfully cooperate with God in mission, our home dining table, church communion and dining tables, work lunch table, church dining tables and various café and Pub tables are among my favourite places. Whether in the company of friends or family, or reading and writing alone in a café, heaven comes close for me at meal tables.
Eating Heaven is a beautifully written book that encourages me in my love of food and celebrating community at different tables. Simon Carey Holt, a chef by background, is Senior Minister of Collins Street Baptist Church. He teaches spirituality of everyday life in theological colleges, but is also passionate about living it through his homemaking, hospitality and engagement with the cafes and civic life of Melbourne.
The book is a delightful smorgasbord of dining. Like a seasoned travel writer, Holt guides his readers from the backyard barbeque to five-star dining, from the family kitchen to the multicultural table, and from city cafes to festive gatherings. He invites us to understand the nature of vocation for those who work in kitchens and to see the communal meaning of the church's communion table. Each chapter takes us to the experience of a different table, and concludes with one of Holt's favourite well-worn recipes – from Anna's Baumkuchen to Credo's Zuchini Slice. Along the way, his love of food and friendship with diverse people is contagious.
My favourite chapter was “The Five-star Table”. Holt dines with his wife for a delightful and expensive nine-course culinary adventure (for the second time in his life), and then discusses how he balances being committed to justice as well as beauty. This a tension in many spheres, but especially with food when 1.1 billion people in the world consume too few calories, and another 1.1 billion consume too many. How we eat, what we eat, where the food comes from, who we share food with are hugely challenging issues. Holt does not hesitate to invite us to reflect on bigger issues, but he is also not prone to offer simplistic answers and balances that challenge for food security and justice for all with the delightful invitation to celebrate and enjoy the food and relationships we have.
Interestingly one of Holt’s anecdotes is that about a hundred years ago the Collins Street Baptist church minister Frederic Spurr, a keen social commentator and public intellectual, called for introducing outdoor seating to Melbourne's footpaths and boulevards. He was ahead of his time in reflecting on what the city needed, or what it was ready for. But Holt brings a timely message, that I think will prove to be warmly received, that we can live out our deepest values and celebrate the best of life – and invite others to do the same – while we sit at different tables. Concludes Holt
“It is through the daily practice of the table that we live a life worth living. Through the table we know who we are, where we come from, what we value and believe. At the table we learn what it means to be family and how to live in responsible, loving relationships. Through the table we live our neighbourliness and citizenship, express our allegiance to particular places and communities, and claim our sense of home and belonging. At the table we celebrate beauty and express solidarity with those who are broken and hungry” (150).
This review was originally published in Journal of Missional Practice, Issue 3 Autumn 2013
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