Latin American Cooking Across the U S A or And You Welcomed Me

Latin American Cooking Across the U. S. A.

Author: Himilce Novas

In the first cookbook to encompass the full spectrum of Latin American cooking all across America today, Himilce Novas and Rosemary Silva offer 200 enticing recipes that have been drawn from the home kitchens of Americans with roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, and nearly every other corner of Latin America. From Cristina, the Cuban American talk show hostess in Miami, to U.S. Representative Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, from film producers and opera singers to young students and grandmothers, the authors have gathered, along with the family recipes and their origins, stories of the past and of the good times celebrated in America. Novas and Silva also offer invaluable information on Latin American chiles, on the earthy appeal of plantains and tubers like yuca and taro, and on other special foods that give these dishes their unique character, along with mail-order sources for hard-to-get ingredients.

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And You Welcomed Me: A SourceBook on Hospitality in Early Christianity

Author: Amy G Oden

And You Welcomed Me presents a collection of early Christian texts regarding hospitality and its practices. The range of excerpts both in time and space shows just how central a role hospitality played in Christian life throughout the early centuries. Yet this book is not a set of instructions for hospitality, nor does the word 'hospitality' even appear in many of the excerpts, and this in itself is good cause for reflection for us today.

The excerpts come from letters, diary accounts, instructions, sermons, travelogues, and community records and rules. They are windows into a world of early communities that saw it as their moral duty and also privilege to care for the sick, to safeguard the pilgrim, and to host the stranger. Abram and Sarai hosting the three angels at the Oaks of Mamre, and Jesus and his disciples feeding the crowds are two familiar biblical examples, but this book also delves into lesser known texts that offer rich insights to those willing to read and then integrate the early fathers' and mothers' wisdom and hospitality into their own lives. The Appendix offers a range of questions on hospitality for group and individual reflection tied to each chapter.