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A Vegan Fast

By Nathan Schneider | April 12, 2009

Christos anesti. Over the years I’ve used the season of Lent as a sort of laboratory for experiments with truth. Perhaps that’s not the most properly penitential way to go…

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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?

Mango

When Hunger Can’t Be Fed

By Ananya Vajpeyi | August 14, 2008

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

"The bread, I learned, was baked by the people I took communion with..."

Take This Bread

By Sara Miles | April 3, 2007

An unlikely convert learns that believing and understanding don’t always arrive at the same time.

Kosher

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.

Legionella Bacterium

Grace

By Bia Lowe | March 21, 2005

A prayer before meals—those we eat, and those we are.

The Great Crowd

Who Wants to Live Forever?

By John D. Spalding | January 1, 2004

There’ll be pie in the sky when you die — but what if there’s not enough to go around?

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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.

A bushel and a peck.

Apples

By Bia Lowe | October 11, 2002

Chew on this. How do we keep our faith when the sun, like love, abandons us?

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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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I Ate Dirt

By Jeff Sharlet | March 22, 2002

With a little bit of God mixed in, even dirt tastes good.

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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.

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Mmm, Doughnuts

By Jeff Sharlet | February 14, 2001

Looking for an effective way to get your militant evangelical point across? Try fried goodness. They’re holy.