S2E12: Tasting Grace with Melissa d'Arabian

Host Kristin Schell interviews chef and best-selling
author Melissa d’Arabian. Melissa is an expert on affordable
family cooking, and author of the book Tasting
Grace. In this episode they discuss how Melissa’s career got
started, her new book, and how her faith influences her approach
to food. Melissa first realized her connection to food, growing
up in a single family home where money was tight. While she often
experienced hunger at school, she saw the sacrifices her mom made
to welcome others into their home with hospitality.


 


Melissa and Kristin discuss the problems with the way that our
society approaches food. While we are as disconnected from the
source of our food as we’ve ever been, we are also food obsessed;
We have celebrity chefs, and we constantly post images of our
food on the internet. There are some serious misconceptions about
food in a world where we won’t eat a tomato because of the sugar
content but we’ll drink an artificially colored and sweetened
sports drink. To develop a better philosophy and theology of
food, Melissa looked to the Bible where she couldn’t find any of
the guilt language our society has about food. Instead, all the
language around food was about loving, welcoming, and
celebrating. It was observing these tensions in our food culture
and this journey in the Bible that led Melissa to
write Tasting Grace.


 


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Sunday Supper recipe: 


BBQ Beer Pulled Chicken Tacos from Half Baked Harvest


 


Conversation Starter: 


What are two of your happiest childhood memories? What is one of
your most embarrassing memories?


 


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