Casseroles on Every Table

If there’s an official cuisine in the American South, it’s got to be the casserole. Every potluck: too many casseroles. Every dinner party: casserole. Every holiday: casseroles everywhere.

Cuisine is not just calories; it’s not only fuel. Cuisine is a story about a people and place. No, this book is not about casseroles and what it tells us about the South. (If it’s not already written, some one has a golden opportunity there.) But it is a book about food and what we can learn about the people that prepared it and the place it’s consumed.

I wrote Left Overs because the meal stories in the Gospels are so telling about the followers of The Way. Even further, the meals give us a vision of how Jesus imagined his earth-altering ministry would continue on. So, the meals not only reveal details about the people and places where they were originally consumed, they tell us about the type of people we should be now.

Left Overs: And Other Meal Stories that Changed Everything I believed About Church brings together my obsession with food—growing, cooking, and eating!—and Jesus’s obsession with the table as a symbol for social change. This book is part theology, part memoir, and part manifesto on how to change the world.