Feeding the Hungry Ghost (33 page)

CHAPTER 2: THE FLOWERING

Page 51,
as Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Locksley Hall,” Poetry Foundation, accessed September 4, 2012,
www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174629.

Page 55,
what James Joyce described:
James Joyce,
Ulysses
(New York: Random House, 1961), 55.

Page 66,
Behold, I have given you:
Bible, Genesis 1:29, English Standard Version.

Page 67,
Every moving thing:
Bible, Genesis 9:3, King James Version.

Page 67,
The weak person eats:
Bible, Romans 14:2, English Standard Version.

Page 67,
Let not the one who eats:
Bible, Romans 14:3, English Standard Version.

Page 68,
Meat commendeth us not:
Bible, 1 Corinthians 8:8, King James Version.

Page 68,
Better is a dinner:
Bible, Proverbs 15:17, English Standard Version.

CHAPTER 3: THE HARVEST

Page 105,
Summer surprised us:
T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land,” in
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer through Frost,
ed. Harold Bloom (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 905.

Page 105,
The harvest is past:
Bible, Jeremiah 8:20, King James Version.

Page 110,
But ask the animals:
Bible, Job 12:7–10, New International Version.

Page 120,
Wordsworth wrote:
William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” in
The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth,
ed. Andrew J. George (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932), 349.

Page 125,
Bowles’s definition of magic:
Gena Dagal Caponi,
Conversations with Paul Bowles: Literary Conversations
(Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1993), 106.

CHAPTER 4: THE COMPOST

Page 168,
Millions of spiritual creatures
: John Milton,
Paradise Lost,
bk. 4, lines 677–78.

Page 182,
As James Baldwin wrote:
James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time,” in
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948–1985,
p. 350, Google Books preview, accessed September 21, 2012,
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0312643063.

Page 189,
If you bake bread:
Kahlil Gibran, “Work,” in
The Prophet,
Wikilivres, last modified May 26, 2008,
http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/The_Prophet/Work.

Page 196,
The Manusmriti:
Manusmriti 5:38.48.53, translated by Wendy Doniger,
The Hindus: An Alternative History
(New York: Penguin, 2009), 317.

Page 205,
as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Montaigne; or, The Skeptic,” in
Representative Men,
Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts, last modified September 3, 2009,
www.emersoncentral.com/montaigne.htm.

Page 208,
as Wordsworth did:
William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” in
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer through Frost,
ed. Harold Bloom (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 327.

EPILOGUE — GENTLE NUDGE THE ULTIMATE: PRACTICE BARAKA

Page 213,
Every day they continued:
Bible, Acts 2:46, New International Version.

Page 213,
We
are
all brothers and sisters:
Laurie Colwin,
More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
(New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 50.

Abu-Jaber, Diana.
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New York: Anchor Books, 2006.

Allen, Will.
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities.
New York: Gotham Books, 2012.

Bittman, Mark.
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food.
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. Translated and edited by M. F. K. Fisher.
The Physiology of Taste; or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy.
New York: Vintage Books, 2011.

Clark, Melissa.
Cook This Now: 120 Easy and Delectable Dishes You Can’t Wait to Make.
New York: Hyperion, 2011.

Colwin, Laurie.
More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Friese, Kurt Michael, Kraig Kraft, and Gary Paul Nabhan.
Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail.
White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2011.

Hamilton, Gabrielle.
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef.
New York: Random House, 2012.

Reichl, Ruth.
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table.
New York: Random House, 2010.

Slater, Nigel.
Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger.
New York: Gotham Books, 2005.

Theise, Terry.
Reading between the Wines.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Van Aken, Norman, and Justin Van Aken.
My Key West Kitchen: Recipes and
Stories.
London: Kyle Books, 2012.

Wolfert, Paula.
The Food of Morocco.
New York: Ecco, 2011.

A

Acts, Book of,
67
,
213

additives,
18

Advent,
166

African American sweet potato and peanut stew,
186–87

ahimsa,
194

ahimsa chai,
195–96

alcohol,
32

All Saints’ Day,
162

All Souls’ Day,
162

almond milk

ahimsa chai,
195–96

vegan chocolate cake,
136

almond(s)

blanching,
169n

cookies,
168–69

rice in the Sahara,
122–23

roasted beet salad with chili-lime vinaigrette,
102–3

amaranth,
91–92

See also
callaloo amaretto, in almond cookies,
168–69

amorous cardamom apple crumble,
47–48

amygdala,
206

anise seeds

ahimsa chai,
195–96

multifaith sweetness and light sugarplums,
193–94

seed cake,
5–6

aphrodisiacs,
36–39
,
47

apple crumble, amorous cardamom,
47–48

applesauce, in seed cake,
5–6

apricots, in, multifaith sweetness and light sugarplums,
193–94

artichokes, in unconventional but seductive veggie paella,
45–46

arugula

Kamut for Mother Earth,
90–91

pink grapefruit and fennel salad,
38–40

“We’ll always have Paris” wild mushroom salad,
201–3

ashes, spreading,
167–68

attachment,
205

autumn,
161–63

autumn recipes.
See
recipes, autumn

avocados,
112

B

baba ghanoush,
28

balance,
154–58

Baldwin, James,
182

baraka
(blessing; gratitude),
209–10
,
211

baraka
recipes.
See
recipes,
baraka

barley,
91–92

and herb salad, Judeo-Christian biblical,
69–71

Bastianich, Lidia,
183

beans

green, in African American sweet potato and peanut stew,
186–87

white, in Tuscan white beans and winter greens soup,
184–85

See also
fava beans

beet salad, roasted, with chili-lime vinaigrette,
102–3

beverages

ahimsa chai,
195–96

lavender tea,
54

bhaji, veggie,
197–98

Bible,
66–68

See also specific book

black-eyed peas

African American sweet potato and peanut stew,
186–87

hopping john,
16–17

block parties,
215

blood sugar,
80

Bohlmann, Benjamin,
57
,
61–62
,
134–35
,
137–42
,
171
,
199–201