But before I share a couple, let me harken back. When I was much younger, I’d buy albums at the music store. Now that I have carbon-dated myself, let me say why I’m thinking this way in regard to Feeding the Hungry Ghost by Ellen Kanner. There were albums that you would put on the turntable and after two listens you would get a kind of glow, and that glow was due to the fact that you knew deep inside that this album was going to reveal more and more gems with each listening. Here’s one from Ellen that I underlined immediately in my copy of this beautiful new book:“Prayer is attentiveness — what the yogic call mindfulness — and it’s what happens to me in the kitchen.”Beyond being a collection of recipes, this is a book about living. Ellen is like having an elfin, white, Jewish, vegan Oprah whispering in your ear that “it’s going to be more than okay, honey — it’s going to be magical!”Another favorite I starred in the margin of my copy:“Every time I start to write about faith,I wind up writing about food.”A word to my fellow omnivores: you will find yourself not looking at this as a vegetarian cookbook that inherently contains restraints.
