Cooking With a Higher Power

What would Jesus eat?

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Finally, an answer to the question, What would Jesus eat?

In Cooking With the Bible, Anthony Chiffolo and Rayner Hesse, Jr., detail 18 meals--16 dinners, a lunch and a breakfast--found in the Scriptures. One example: The Lovers in the Garden, drawn from the Old Testament's Song of Songs. The meal features Spiced Baked Fish (a Hesse favorite), plus Pounded Chicken Breast with Pomegranates and Walnuts, Solomon's Rainbow of Vegetables, Sephardic Wedding Rice, and Pleasant Fruits in Cinnamon Spice Syrup.

While the authors aimed for authenticity and spent three-plus years on research, they improvised some to settle on just the right ingredients. What they concocted is almost equal parts spiritual, historical and gastronomical -- and truly food for thought.

From Reader's Digest - February 2007
 
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