Review: Good Food
Jennifer R. Ayres. Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology. Waco, TX.: Baylor University Press, 2013, xiv + 233pp., $29.95 What does it mean to call…
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Review: The Spirituality of Wine
Gisela Kreglinger. The Spirituality of Wine. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 2016. 300 pages. $24.00. Gisela Kreglinger’s The Spirituality of Wine is as rife…
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‘Taste and See that the Lord is Good’: The Aesthetics of the Eucharist
O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in him. -Psalm 34(33):8 On Sunday, May 16, 2010, I…
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Eating to Survive or Eating to Live?
Eating, like clothing and shelter, is a necessity. But just as every culture discovers and develops ways of building shelters and designing clothing based…
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Transpositions Tidbits: Domestic Arts
Along the lines of the Domestic Arts posts that have been featured all this week on Transpositions, here’s this week’s Tidbits. It’s been a…
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Becoming Human Through Cooking
Call me a hopeless Romantic, but I won’t give up believing that humans are more than machines. Few cookbooks would reinforce my prejudice, but Robert…
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The Art of Preserves
Sounds, tastes, and smells have the ability to transform a moment into a kind of transportation device into our memories. We can be transported…
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Abuse of Cakes
Take a good look–the precariously balanced pile of objects in this photo is actually a cake. In recent years, whether in trendy bakeries or…
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Cooking in Community
Artists are often perceived as isolated or alienated, and this can have a grain of truth. If an artist is crafting a work by…
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