Eucharistic Eating – Bibliography

By Donald McKenzie

December 7, 2020

Eucharistic Eating Bibliography

Starting on Monday, March 6, I will be leading a lecture series through the six weeks of Lent, entitled Eucharistic Eating. The purpose of the class is to look at how we can bring our everyday eating into the Eucharist and the Eucharist into our everyday eating.

This is an ongoing project of mine. This series marks a step along the road. Below I’ve listed a series of books that have or will continue to influence my thinking on the subject. This list is not complete, and I have read most, but not all the books contained therein. I hope as I continue on to work my way through the few that I haven’t been able to read yet.

If you have any suggestion for me to add to this list, please feel free to add them in the comments section beneath the post. Thank you.

Eucharistic Eating: Biography

Allemang, John. The Importance of Lunch: and other real-life adventures in good eating, Vintage Canada, 2000

Angelou, Maya. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes. Random House, 2004.

Apple Jr., R. W. Far Flung and Well Fed: The Food Writing of R. W. Apple Jr. St. Martin’s Press, 2009.

Barlow, John. Everything but the Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Barnes, Darlene. Hungry: What Eighty Ravenous Guys Taught Me About Life, Love & The Power of Good Food, Hyperion, 2013

Bracken, Peg. A Window Over the Sink: A Mainly Affectionate Memoir. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981.

Brand, Jo. Feast Here Awhile: Adventures in American Eating. Ticknor and Fields, 1997

Bruni, Frank. Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, The Penguin Press, 2009

Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bloomsbury, 2001.

DeSalvo, Louise. Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family, Bloomsbury, 2004

Ehman, Amy Jo. Prairie Feast: A Writer’s Journey Home for Dinner. Couteau Books, 2010.

Gaffigan, Jim. Food: A Love Story. Crown Archetype, 2014.

Gargani, Sharon Oddson with Rena Bulkin. Once Upon a Tuscan Table: Tales and Recipes From Trattoria Garga. Camino Books, Inc., 2006.

Gopnik, Adam. The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, Vintage Canada, 2012.

Jones, Judith. The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007

 Kirk, Patty. Starting from Scratch: Memoirs of a Wandering Cook, Thomas Nelson, 2007.

 Leith, William. The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict. Bond Street Books, 2005.

Lerman, Dawn. My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes, Berkley Books, 2015.

Liebling, A. J. Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, North Point Press, 1986.

Maisto, Michelle. The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009.

Martin, Sasha. Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness, National Geographic, 2015.

Perry, Michael. Coop: A Family, A Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg, Harper Perennial, 2009

Powell, Julie. Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, Black Bay Books, 2000

Reardon, Joan. M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, Harmony Books, 1994

Reichl, Ruth. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Broadway Books, 1999.

Ross, Cecily. Love in the Time of Cholesterol: A Memoir with Recipes, Viking Canada, 2006.

Severson, Kim. Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life, A Memoir, Riverhead Books, 2010

Spitz, Bob: The Saucier’s Apprentice, One Long Strange Trip through the Great Cooking Schools of Euroope, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

Trillin, Calvin. Alice, let’s Eat: Further Adventures of A Happy Eater, Random House Trade Publications, 2007                                                         

Tye, Diane. Baking as Biography: A Life Story in Recipes, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010                                                                                          

Von Bremzen, Anya. Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Crown, 2013.                                                                              

West, Michael Lee. Consuming Passions: A Food Obsessed Life (uncorrected proof), HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.

Wine, Cynthia. Eating for A Living: Notes from a Professional Diner. Viking, 1993.

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Cook Book

 Janzen Longacre, Doris. More-With-Less Cookbook, Herald Press, 25th edition, 1987.

 Ethics

Cerulli, Tovar. The Mindful Carnivore. Pegasus Books, 2012

Donnelly, Catherine. Ending the War on Artisan Cheese, Chelsea Green Publishing

Gold, Scott. The Shameless Carnivore: A Manifesto for Meat Lovers. Broadway Books, 2008

Lappé, Frances Moore & Joseph Collins, with Cary Fowler. Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity, Revised and Updated. Ballantine Books, 1979.

Martineau, Belinda. First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr™ Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Food, McGraw-Hill, 2001

Pollan, Michael.  https://diningwithdonald.com/2013/11/09/michael-pollan-defense-food/ In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. Penguin Books, 2008.

Safran Foer, Jonathan: https://diningwithdonald.com/2013/07/31/eating-animals-johnathan-safran-foer/  Eating Animals. Back Bay Books, 2009.

Eucharist

Gallagher, Nora. The Sacred Meal. The Ancient Practices Series. Thomas Nelson, 2009.

Hahn, Scott. The Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth. Doubleday, 1999.

—. Consuming the Word. The New Testament and the Eucharist in the Early Church. Image, 2013.

Howison, Jamie. Come to the Table: A reflection on the practice of open communion at saint benedict’s table. Saint Benedict’s Table Publications, 2008.                                                                                                                 

Powers, Joseph M.  Eucharistic Theology. Seabury Press, 1967.

Smith, Gordon T.  https://diningwithdonald.com/2016/08/17/a-holy-meal-gordon-t-smith/ A Holy Meal: The Lords Supper in the Life of the Church. Baker Academic. A Holy Meal makes a good introduction to the Lord’s Supper, and Eucharistic Eating.

Streett, R. Alan. Subversive Meals: An Analysis of the Lord’s Supper under Roman Domination during the First Century, Pickwick, 2013.    

Tyndale, William. The Supper of the Lord, Crossreach Publication, 2016.

Witherington III, Ben. Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord’s Supper.

Wright, Tom. The Meal Jesus Gave us: Understanding Holy Communion. Westminster John Knox Press, 1999.

Gardening:

Klindienst, Patricia. The Earth Knows my Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, Beacon Press, 2007

General:

Bauer, Douglas, editor and Introduction. Death by Pad Thai: and Other Unforgettable Meals, Three Rivers Press, 2006

Bowen, Sarah, Jocelyn Brenton, Sinikka Elliot,  Pressure Cooker:  Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It, Oxford University Press, 2020                                                                              

Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste, Vintage, 2011

Buchanan, David: Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, And Why They Matter. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012.                                          

Cowen, Tyler. An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies. Dutton, 2012.

Desrochers, Pierre, and Hiroko Shimizu. The Locavore’s Dilemna: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet, Public Affairs, 2012

Fisher, MFK. Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets. North Point Press, 1986.

Herbert, Sharon Tyler. Never Eat More Than You Can Life: and Other Food Quotes and Quips, Broadway Books, 1997

Issenberg, Sasha. The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, Gotham Books, 2007.

McQuaid, John. Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat, Scribner, 2015.

Miller, John and Benedict Cosgrove, editors. Gluttony: Ample Tales of Epicurean Excess, 1996.

Pashman, Dan. Eat More Better: How to Make Every Bite more Delicious. Simon & Schuster, 2014.

 Roberts, Kylie and Alexandra Michell. Instant Guide to Entertaining. Coles Publishing, 1979.

Sweet, Victoria: God’s Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. Riverhead Books, Penquin, 2012.

Visser, Margaret. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal. M&S Paperback from McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1989.

—. The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence, and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual, Harper Collins, 2008.

—.The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentaricities, and Meaning of Table Manners, Harper Perennial, 1998.

History

Collingham, Lizzie. The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food. Penguin Books, 2011.

Johnston, James P. A Hundred Years Eating: Food, Drink and the Daily Diet in Britain since the late Nineteenth Century. Gill and MacMillan, 1977.

Kurlansky, Mark, ed and intro. Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History, Ballantine Books, 2002

Shaffer, Marjorie. Pepper: A History of the World’s Most Influential Spice. Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.

Sitwell, William. A History of Food in 100 Recipes. Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Standage. Tom. An Edible History of Humanity. Walker & Company, 2009.

Wilson, Bee. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Basic Books, 2012.

Wrangham, Richard. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human, Basic Books, 2009.

Hospitality

Pohl, Christine D. Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1999.

Sutherland, Arthur. I Was a Stranger: A Christian Theology of Hospitality. Abingdon, 2006.

Westerhoff, Caoline A., Good Fences: The Boundaries of Hospitality. Morehouse Publishing, 1999.                                                                                   

Willis, Dustin, Brandon Clements. The Simplest Way to Change the World, Moody Publishers, 2017

Hunger:

Bjerga, Alan. Endless appetites : how the commodities casino creates hunger and unrest, Bloomberg Press, 2011.

Keneally, Thomas. Three famines: starvation and politics, PublicAffairs, 2011.

Russell, Sharman Apt. Hunger: an unnatural history, Basic Books, 2005

Winne, Mark. Closing the food gap: resetting the table in the land of plenty, Beacon Press, 2008

Yang, Jisheng. Tombstone: the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012

Justice:

Saul, Nick and Andrea Curtis. The STOP: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, Random House Canada, 2013.

Campbell, Cathy. Stations of the Banquet: Faith Foundations for Food Justice, Liturgical Press, 2003.

Hellwig, Monika K. The Eucharist and the Hunger of the World. Paulist Press/Deus Books, 1976.

Paige, Jeffery M. Coffee and Power. Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America, Harvard University Press, 1997.

Seay, Chris. A Place at the Table: 40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor.

Sider, Ronald J. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: A Biblical Study. Intervarsity Press, Fifth Printing, 1979.

Simon, Arthur. Bread for the World. Paulist Press, Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1975.

Social:

Badkhen, Anna. Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories. Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, 2010.

Flinn, Kathleen. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices Into Fearless Home Cooks. Viking, 2011.

Grant, Caroline M. & Lisa Catherine Harper, editors. The Cassoulet Saved our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family & How We Learn to Eat. Roost Books, 2013

Linn, Dennis, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn. Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life. Paulist Press, 1995.

Teicholz, Nina. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2014.

Wansink, Brian. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. Bantam Books,

Table Fellowship

Parrot, Les & Leslie, with Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna. The Hour that Matters Most: The Surprising Power of the Family Meal, Tyndale, 2011.

Bonhoeffer, Deitrich. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community.

Translated, and with an Introduction by John W. Doberstein, Harper & Row, 1954. Harper One, 1978.

Theology:

Brasher-Cunningham, Milton. Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal, Morehouse Publishing, 2012.

Capon, Robert Farrar. Light Theology & Heavy Cream: The Culinary Adventures of Pietro & Madeleine. Cowley Publications, 2004.

–The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection. Modern Library Food, Ruth Reichel, editor, 2002.                                                                                    

Chester, Tim.  A Meal With Jesus. Crossway, 2011                                    

Feinberg, Margaret: Taste and See. Zondervan, 2019                            

Karris, Robert J. Eating your Way Through Luke’s Gospel. Liturgical Press, 2006.

Miles, Sara. Take this Bread: The Spiritual Memoir of A Twenty-First-Century Christian, Ballantine Books, 2007.

Norris, Gunilla. Becoming Bread: Embracing the Spiritual in the Everyday, HiddenSpring, 2003.

Sack, Daniel. Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture. Palgrave, 2000.

Schmemann, Alexander. For the Life of the World, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1973.

Stone, Rachel Marie. Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food, IVP, 2013.

Wirzba, Norman. Food & Faith: A Theology of Eating. Cambridge, 2011.