Chapter 3 Solidarity
"But
the pleasure of hiding in plain sight was just one of the benefits I picked up
from working as a cook. I learned solidarity, the kind that only comes through
shared bodily experience, sweating and lifting and hauling side by side with
others. I learned from watching customers that the rituals of even the plainest
or most cynically prepared dinner could carry unconscious messages of love and
comfort. And at the end of a rush, when I sat down with the kitchen staff and
waiters, I learned how central food is to creating human community, what eating
together around a table can do. As a wise bishop would tell me, years and years
later, in words I couldn't possibly have grasped back then, "There's a
hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a
kind of miracle." (page 23)
What miracles have happened to you around food?
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