In the news . . .

• How a Distaste for 'Pagan Food' First Put the British Off Horsemeat -- Telegraph (21 February 2013)
  
  
• A fishy tale of Christianity in Ancient Rome -- Times Online (11 April 2009)

• Anthropophagy
  
  
• Bell, Rudolph M. Holy Anorexia. University Of Chicago Press, 1987.
  
  
• Bynum Walker, Caroline. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California Press, 1988.
  
  
• Cooper, John. Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1993.
  
  
• DeTurris Poust, Mary. Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God. Ave Maria Press, 2012.
  
  
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. NY: The Free Press, 2002.
  
  
• Garrett, Catherine. Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  
  
• Harris, Patricia, David Lyon, and Sue McLaughlin. 2005. The Meaning of Food: The Companion to the PBS Televisio Series Hosted by Marchs Samuelsson. Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot, 2005.
  
  
• It’s Time for a New Relationship With Food -- Leo Babauta
  
  
• Jacob, Heinrich Eduard. Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History. Skyhorse, 2007.
  
  
• Jotischky, Andrew. A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food & Fasting in the Middle Ages. Continuum, 2011.
  
  
• Jung, L. Shannon. Sharing Food: Christian Practices for Enjoyment. Fortress, 2006.
  
  
• Lelwica, Michelle Mary. Starving For Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women. Oxford University Press, 2002.
  
  
• Luard, Elisabeth. Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004 [2001].
  
  
• Neel, Douglas E. and Joel A. Pugh. The Food and Feasts of Jesus: Inside the World of First Century Fare, with Menus and Recipes. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
  
  
• Peck, Alice. Bread, Body, Spirit: Finding the Sacred in Food. Skylight Paths, 2008.
  
  
• Rosenberger, Nancy R. Seeking Food Rights: Nation, Inequality and Repression in Uzbekistan. Wadsworth, 2012.
  
  
• "The Sensual and the Spiritual in the World of Food," Ch. 2 of Bringéus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001.
  
  
• Simoons, Frederick J. Eat not this flesh: food avoidances from prehistory to the present, 2nd Ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
  
  
• Wirzba, Norman. Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  
  
• World Religions
  
  
  • Buddhist
  • Christianity
    • Catholic
      • Eucharist
      • Proscriptions
        • fasting
  • Hindu
  • Islam
    • Ramadan
    • Proscriptions
      • halal
      • Haraam
      • Islamic dietary laws
    • Food According to Quran and Sunnah -- Muttaqun OnLine
  • Jewish
    • Seder
    • Proscriptions
      
      
  • ritual anthropophagy see Anthropophagy

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Adam and Eve (1507)

Albrecht Dürer
(1471 - 1528)
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Karris, Robert J. Eating Your Way Through Luke's Gospel.
Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2006.

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to top of page / A-Z index The Last Supper Marcos Zapata 18th century, Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cusco, Peru Christ and his disciples contemplate a feast of roast guinea pig Luard, Elisabeth. Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004 [2001], pp. 238-239 Wikipedia

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Sugar Skull, Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos)

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