(RNS) — 'Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat,' by Christina Ward, is both history book and cookbook, with over 75 recipes. (RNS) — As a kid growing up in ...

Religion and food may seem like unlikely partners, but the pairing has had a profound role in shaping American identity — who we are, what we believe, and how we live. Whether it's established ...

Advocate file photo -- 'The bibical account of the first temptation is not sex, but food -- an apple, or whatever that fruit was,' says LSU Professor Gail Hinich Sutherland, who will be teaching a ...

Food writer Christina Ward spent summers four hours north of Chicago attending “kid revivals” in rural Jackson County, Wisconsin, in the ’70s, which involved bussing a group of kids to a field for a ...

Without doubt, men and (mostly) women experience societal pressure to be thin. The fact that most Americans are overweight suggests that societal pressures are not a sufficient motivator for thinness ...

Do you start the morning with a breakfast cereal? The beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists played a large role in developing that habit. Love sushi? A company spawned by the Unification Church may have ...

Several religious traditions have joined together in support of a local effort. The Fast for Food Challenge, hosted by the Vipassana Buddhist Church/Center for Buddhist Development, will ask ...

I had the good fortune in graduate school to work with Professor Paul Rozin, who has done more to help us understand the biological, psychological, and cultural influences on our eating behavior than ...

• The 24th annual Jewish Food & Cultural Festival will be held at Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom, 555 Warwick Drive, Wyomissing, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Nov. 3 What’s available: An expanded menu that ...

Rafael Tonon is an award-winning journalist, writer, curator, and researcher, covering food trends and the restaurant industry in Brazil and Portugal for Slate, The Washington Post, Epicurious, Atlas ...

• The 23rd annual Jewish Food and Cultural Festival will be held at Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom, 555 Warwick Drive., Wyomissing, on Nov. 5 from 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Apple cake, brisket, pastrami, ...