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Food how it's grown, how it's shared makes us who we are.

This issue traces the connections between farm and food, between humus and human. According to the first book of the Bible, tending the earth was humankind's first task: The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed (Gen. 2:8). The desire to get one's hands dirty raising one's own food, then, doesn't just come from modern romanticism, but is built into human nature.

The title, The Welcome Table, comes from a spiritual first sung by enslaved African-Americans. The song refers to the Bible's closing scene, the wedding feast of the Lamb described in the Book of Revelation, to which every race, tribe, and tongue are invited a divine pledge of a day of freedom and freely shared plenty, of earth renewed and humanity restored. In the case of food, the symbol is the substance. Every meal, if shared generously and with radical hospitality, is already now a

Plough Quarterly No. 20 The Welcome Table

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    A Paperback / softback by Edwidge Danticat, Sarah Ruden, Daniel Larison

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      Publisher Plough Publishing House
      Published 4 April 2019
      ISBN-13 9780874862874
      978-0874862874
      ISBN-10 874862876
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      Cookery Home & Garden Gardening Christian life and practice

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Food how it's grown, how it's shared makes us who we are.

      This issue traces the connections between farm and food,       between humus and human. According to the first book of the Bible, tending the earth was humankind's first task: The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed (Gen. 2:8). The desire to get one's hands dirty raising one's own food, then, doesn't just come from modern romanticism, but is built into human nature.

      The title, The Welcome Table, comes from a spiritual first sung by enslaved African-Americans. The song refers to the Bible's closing scene, the wedding feast of the Lamb described in the Book of Revelation, to which every race, tribe, and tongue are invited a divine pledge of a day of freedom and freely shared plenty, of earth renewed and humanity restored. In the case of food, the symbol is the substance. Every meal, if shared generously and with radical hospitality, is already now a

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