Religious cooking at Bloomingdale’s
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- March
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The sanctuary of everything stylish in Westchester, Bloomingdale’s, will be featuring the authors of “Cooking with the Bible” Biblical Food, Feasts, and Lore” in the White Plains store’s Epicurean Center.
It will be tomorrow right around lunch time — perfect timing for a food talk. And as for the religious aspect, don’t forget that Passover and Easter are coming up fast and each include special foods and family meals.
The focus of ” Cooking with the Bible ”(Greenwood Press) is on food, cooking and what people might have eaten during Biblical times, explains Rob of Rob Seitz Communications in New Rochelle. The authors dish about the “gospel on food according to Anthony and Rusty” (a/k/a co-authors Anthony Chiffolo and (The Rev. Dr.) Rayner “Rusty” Hesse, he says.
Not everyone will be interested in locust soup, I suspect, but there are recipes for matzoh ball soup, haroset, Persian lamb stew and deviled eggs.
The authors will be at Bloomingdale’s between 12 noon to 2:00 pm. The store is on Bloomingdale Road in White Plains, just off exit 8 of the Cross Westchester (287).
The co-authors are Hartsdale residents. Chiffolo and (The Rev.) Hesse. Chiffolo is editorial director of Praeger Publishers and Hesse is and pastor of St. John’s Wilmot Episcopal Church in New Rochelle. Both are religious scholars and their shared avocation is cooking and recipe development. (In fact, they are researching for their next cookbook, “Cooking with the Movies.”).
The first edition of the book took more than four years to put together. It involved researching biblical passages in to find references to food and also developing and testing the recipes on family members, friends and members of Rusty’s congregation.
The original hardcover edition was published during better times, 2006, and sold for $75. The soft-cover edition is $25.
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