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title: "Offsite Review: Keeping the Feast"
description: "This seems like an appropriate book topic for Thanksgiving. In Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal Milton Brasher-Cunningham draws on his gifts as a writer, chef, minister and teacher to explore..."
url: https://bookwi.se/offsite-review-keeping-the-feast/
date: 2012-11-22
modified: 2012-11-22
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Book Reviews"]
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lang: en
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# Offsite Review: Keeping the Feast

[![Keeping the Feast](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/922789_0_150.jpg)](http://matichuk.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/keeping-the-feast-a-book-review/)This seems like an appropriate book topic for Thanksgiving.

> In Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal Milton Brasher-Cunningham draws on his gifts as a writer, chef, minister and teacher to explore the meaning of “˜the meal,’ relating his reflections on food (and cooking) with the central meal of the Christian faith, Holy Communion. Brasher-Cunningham presses into what the meaning of community is and how community is built around a table. He also opens up the meaning of ritual (not a lifeless act, but as a meaningful routine which shapes us through our practice). Preparing food and eating a good meal around the table show us what the Eucharist is; the Eucharist makes our daily meals sacred.  Each chapter opens with a poem and closes with a recipe and Brasher-Cunningham shares lots of stories of his experience as a musician and lyricist, an apprenticed chef and as a UCC minister.

continue reading the rest of the review at [thoughts, prayers & songs](http://matichuk.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/keeping-the-feast-a-book-review/)