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Saying Grace: Blessings for the Family Table
Offering thanks for our daily bread is just about universal. This collection of 120 mealtime blessings spans the globe and reaches back hundreds of years to include a wide range of sentiments, from the amusing to the heartfelt to the sacred. A Chinese proverb gives us this reminder, "When eating bamboo shoots, remember the man who planted them." The Irish lyrically ask tha...more
Hardcover, 120 pages
Published
September 1st 2003
by Chronicle Books
(first published January 1st 2003)
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Jun 17, 2009
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If there was an equivalent of a coffee table book, only for kitchen tables, this would be it. The art is simple, colorful, and well done, and the graces are simple enough to leaf through and smile at. It's a good one to use before meals and it sits on a little ledge in my dining room/nook right now. My only complaint is that I appreciate some deeper, more substantive graces (social justice and feeling connected to one's food) from time to time and this book is sometimes too simple for my mood......more
This is our unorthodox prayer book. We clasp hands and recite a prayer or proverb from this book at every meal time.
A mixed bag of graces to say before meals. The illustrations were mediocre, as were some of the pieces, many of which were poems or quotes about food that did not necessarily work really well as a blessing. Still, there were enough to merit a flip-through and some to add to our family's notebook of mealtime graces.
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