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Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes

by Shauna Niequist

Essays, recipes, and the meaning of gathering

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Essays, recipes, and the meaning of gathering

Shauna Niequist brings food and faith together in a collection that pairs personal essays with recipes. Meals shared with family and friends provide the thread connecting reflections on hospitality, loneliness, restlessness, and spiritual nourishment. The book also considers how gathering around a table can open space for conversation and connection. Recipes range from goat cheese biscuits and bacon-wrapped dates to mango chicken curry and dark chocolate sea salt toffee, giving the collection a practical cookbook element alongside its spiritual memoir. Its focus is not only what is served, but the relationships and beliefs that can take shape around a meal.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in food writing that combines essays and recipes.
  • For readers who enjoy reflections on Christian faith, hospitality, and shared meals.
  • For home cooks seeking recipes alongside personal storytelling.

Themes

Food and fellowshipChristian faithHospitalityLoneliness and belonging

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Book overview

Join New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist as she offers an enchanting mix of funny and vulnerable storytelling in this collection of recipes and essays about the surprising and sacred things that happen when people gather around the table.

Bread & Wine is a literary feast about the moments and meals that bring us together. With beautiful and evocative writing, Shauna celebrates the sweet and savory moments that happen when family and friends sit down together. She invites us to see how God teaches and feeds us even as we nourish the people around us, and she explores the ways that hunger, loneliness, and restlessness lead us back to the table again.

Part cookbook and part spiritual memoir, Bread & Wine sheds light on:

  • How sharing food together mirrors the way we share our hearts with each other--and with God
  • What it means to follow a God who reveals His presence in breaking bread and passing a cup
  • What happens when we come together, slow down, open our homes, look into one another's faces, and listen to one another's stories

A satisfying read for heart and body, you'll want to keep Bread & Wine close at hand all year round. Recreate the meals that come to life in each essay with recipes for any occasion, from Goat Cheese Biscuits and Bacon-Wrapped Dates to Mango Chicken Curry and Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Toffee.

For anyone who has found themselves swapping stories over plates of pasta, sharing takeout on the couch, laughing over a burnt recipe, and lingering a little longer for one more bite, this book is for you.

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