With the growing farm-to-table movement and popularity of local farmers' markets, we are becoming more conscious of where our food originates. This spirituality of eating and food helps us reflect on current realities and understand how eating forms our souls inwardly, upwardly, and outwardly. The author offers practical guidance on what it means to eat alone or in community with more intention, compassion, humility, and gratitude. She also tells the story of food as it transitions from seed to table. Sidebars contain gardening and food tips, recipes, and food preservation guides. End-of-chapter questions for individual and group use are included.

Low Cholesterol Diet Recipes: Living Healthy with Smoothie Diet and Kale Recipes Learn the wonders of one amazing vegetable that will make your low cholesterol diet easy to follow. The recipes found in this book, show how this Super Food, known to some as Kale, is much more versatile than ever imagined. Used in healthy recipes for dinner, along with other nutritional foods, you will find very little that kale is not capable of. The little respected leafy, green vegetable, is much more than an aesthetic outline for a plate of tuna or chicken salad. Learn of the kale history, how important it is to the human body, and the many benefits it holds in providing vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Considered to be the mother of all super foods, it can easily be included in everything from salads to desserts.