Food and Faith Anitra Kitts, Author at Food and Faith

April 3, 2008

A Decent and In Order Pantry

Posted 6:41pm

So one afternoon, in the middle of a larger cleaning and organizing frenzy, I found myself newly in procession of a number of pantry organizing glass bins. They are so cool they have a chalkboard paint area where I can write the name of the contents as I please. They are square, they come in various sizes, and the line up very orderly on the shelf. I love them. I love looking at them. And… I smell a whiff of idolatry whenever I gaze upon their neat, orderly presences.

February 28, 2008

Talking ‘Bout Serious Change

Posted 9:10pm

I want Upton Sinclair’s change. I want God’s change. I want the change that gets us out of thinking and living “better grab all that I can get ‘cuz there won’t be enough” and into trusting the life-giving Commandments to love God and to love our neighbor.

February 5, 2008

Choices

Posted 7:05pm

The little time keeper in the upper right corner of my computer screen tells me that I have about 3 more minutes before my voting station, just down the street at the local grade school, opens up. I’m on West…

January 22, 2008

Making Bacon

Posted 11:02pm

This is my first effort at making my own bacon. It is fresh from about two hours in the oven after spending seven days in a salt/sugar/pink salt dry brine in my refrigerator. It already tastes very good. (It’s not…

January 14, 2008

Are You a Gardener?

Posted 11:09pm

While I was squatted down near the floor, reading the organic (but of course) seed packets at the bottom of the rack (mmm, Black Plum Past Tomato – Russian variety that produces elongated, deep-mahogany to bronze fruit with a rich complex flavor that is concentrated when cooked down and also delicious for fresh eating, pretty much everything I want in a tomato…) when a woman suddenly walked up to me and asked with excitement in her voice, “You’re a gardener, right?” as if I were a rock star or an author or something cool like that.

September 19, 2007

Farmer’s Markets Pushing Farmers Out?

Posted 7:38pm

SF Gate – which is the San Francisco Chronicles’ web site – has an article on farmers quitting the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market. Too many folks selling the same stuff plus the distance and energy it takes to get the…

September 6, 2007

Interesting Discussion on Food Cost

Posted 5:33pm

How much fun is it when one blog references another? I donno, but I do think the conversation going on over at Ruhlman.com on what food should cost and what is a fair price for those who produce that food, especially organic and local, should be is worth a read.

August 8, 2007

A Journey Beyond the Horizon

Posted 6:48pm

This coming Sunday, I will serve as guest preacher to two yoked congregations in a Northern California farming community. I’m a city girl. This is only my second season of gardening (and the tomatoes are coming on very nicely, thank…

August 1, 2007

How Much is Enough?

Posted 6:51pm

The suggested Lectionary reading for this coming Sunday is Luke 12: 13-21 – a teaching on Greed. Someone approaches Jesus asking for assistance with a family dispute. Jesus refuses to act as judge but turns the request around into a…

July 9, 2007

Luke, Jesus, and Dinner

Posted 7:34pm

We are in the third year of the three year Revised Lectionary Cycle, which means we are deep in the Gospel of Luke. There is a lot of food in Luke. From the opening page where the baby Jesus is…

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