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A New Ramadan

By Kirsten Hemmy | May 23, 2020

This year’s Ramadan promised to be different before it started.

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Et Tu, Almonds? On Guilt and Eating

By Kate Blanchard | March 10, 2020

Meanwhile I forgive you, my beloved almonds, for not being harmless; I am not harmless either.

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Cloudy Coffee

By Dania Rajendra | May 27, 2014

Left out of Kannada conversation, I always recognize “coffee.”

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Egg-mail From Heaven and/or Latvia

By Mary Valle | March 31, 2013

A special appearance from Jesus.

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Festival of the Hungry Ghosts

By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan | October 31, 2011

What to make when it’s your turn to feed a dead grandmother?

"Repas de Notre-Seigneur et des apôtres" by James Tissot, c. 1886-1894. Brooklyn Museum.

Jesus and the Sukkah

By Rob Goodman | September 24, 2010

Why did they have to build a church over Christ’s Table?

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Albertson’s Chicken for the Soul

By Kathleen Flanagan | October 7, 2009

Hungry, homeless, and caught in the rainstorm of life.

All photos by Katherine Wright.

Why We Hunt

By Scott Korb | June 15, 2009

Lost in the crosshairs, the gun was a little too big and the hunter a little too small.

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Tea with God

By Susan Moon | December 21, 2008

After a lifetime spent looking for God, Sue finally finds him. And he’s pretty steamy.

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Frogmore Stew for All

By Stacey Tomczyk | September 24, 2008

What would you do if you were to plan your Last Supper? And would it include Women Rockers of the ’80s Volume II?

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When Hunger Can’t Be Fed

By Ananya Vajpeyi | August 14, 2008

Remembering to eat, and live, when the stuff of life becomes unpalatable.

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Kosher Cooking for What Ails You

By Abigail Pickus | June 10, 2005

When the going gets tough, the tough get to Mrs. Greenbaum’s kitchen.

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Fast Food Buddha

By Diana Winston | September 13, 2003

Hungry for enlightenment, an American Buddhist on retreat in Burma bites off more than she can chew.

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Tofu and War Gods

By Jeff Wilson | June 15, 2002

At a Chinese-food restaurant devoted to a god of war, wisdom and compassion are best served vegetarian-style.

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Sweet Dreams

By Carly Hutchinson | February 14, 2002

If these beans could talk: the divine prehistory of chocolate.

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White Challah

By Lamed Shapiro | November 14, 2001

“One day a neighbor broke the leg of a stray dog with a heavy stone, and when Vasil saw the sharp edge of the bone piercing the skin he cried.”

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God’s Hors D’Oeuvres

By KtBniks | July 7, 2001

Hot and healthy Christ Cookies do the body good.

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The Doctrine of Sugar

By Catherine Allgor | March 14, 2001

Chocolate, cherry pie, and all that can’t be left behind.