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Product Name:
PEACE MEALS (HC) |
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| Product ID:
9780615207834 |
| Category:
Cooking, Food and Wine |
| Price:
$32.95 |
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Description:
Peace Meals: A Book of Recipes for Cooking and Connecting
By Junior League of Houston, Inc.
A wonderful collection of recipes centered around creating great memories from small moments together at the table – with either family or friends – or both.
Have you ever thought that our mothers’ and grandmothers’ lives seemed governed by immutable rhythms…rhythms more or less silent in our own? On their watch, houses were cleaned and aired out in springtime, peaches were ‘put up’ in late summer, cold weather was warmed by celebration and thanksgiving. There were times set aside for This; other, equally definite times for That. Breakfast signaled each day’s start, and twice more before bedtime there would, again, be the ritual of preparing and serving food. The patterns made for lives seemingly cut from good whole cloth.
Our lives, on the other hand, often seem more piecemeal than pattern: bright with color and variety, light on ritual and routine. Good lives, yes, though not untouched by occasional reflection about whether the pieces always form a perfect whole. Which, of course, they always do. For inside the patchwork of countless ordinary moments live moments of singular, extraordinary grace. Moments of laughter and pleasure and connection. Peaceful, joyous times that seem more-than-usually abundant when we happen to be gathered around a table somewhere, breaking bread.
The meals that nourish a good life are what PEACE MEALS is about. The recipes – some fancy, some simple – are our best. Many are our own creation, others are from the canon left us in the yellowed, spotty cookbooks of great-aunts and grandmothers. All of them, breadcrumbs forming a path to the great human experience of which food, while a miracle, is still but a part. Mary Francis Fisher, food’s peerless poet laureate, once said that a cookbook should be “as much touched by the spirit as by the bread and meat and wine with which it deals.” PEACE MEALS is such a book.
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