{"product_id":"9780802885883_tasting-god","title":"Tasting God","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn southern Appalachia, a priest discovers that the road to heaven runs through the kitchen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe road to heaven, Robert Farrar Capon wrote, doesn't run from the world but through it. In \u003ci\u003eTasting God\u003c\/i\u003e, Alex Sosler takes that conviction seriously, leading readers through soil and seed, bread and wine, and the meals we share with neighbors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart theological meditation, part love letter to Asheville, this book invites readers to the shared table of southern Appalachia--a region that has long resisted the flattening logic of industrial agriculture. Sosler introduces us to the gardeners, seed-keepers, millers, foragers, chefs, and winemakers who are quietly tending a different kind of economy--one rooted in affection rather than extraction, abundance rather than scarcity, neighborliness rather than mobility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Wendell Berry's agrarian wisdom, Norman Wirzba's theology of eating, and Capon's sacramental imagination, Sosler argues that mysticism begins with a meal. Every bite traces a genesis back to soil, and back to the God who calls creation good. Here is a book for anyone hungry not just for better food but for a more rooted, grateful, and hopeful way of being at home in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaste and see\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex Sosler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41237968879665,"sku":"9780802885883","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9926\/3793\/files\/9780802885883.jpg?v=1790220249","url":"https:\/\/bakerbookhouse.com\/products\/9780802885883_tasting-god","provider":"Baker Book House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}