Filipino Cooking for the Common Family or Is God a Vegetarian

Filipino Cooking for the Common Family

Author: C L Bedell

Filipino Cooking for the Common Family is a collection of over 100 authentic Filipino recipes that can be prepared with ease. These dishes are simple enough for the typical nightly dinner, but sophisticated enough to serve to invited guests. This book contains a wide variety of dishes featuring beef, pork, poultry and seafood. Vegetarian dishes and desserts are also included. Whether you like you meals spicy or mild, sweet or sour, you are certain to find the perfect dinner solution here. Even a novice cook can prepare incredible Filipino meals using these easy to follow recipes. A complete list of common cooking terms and ingredients is also included. Whether you are looking to add a little variety to the nightly meal or searching for that special item to add to your restaurant menu, you will find everything you need here. You will love Filipino Cooking for the Common Family.

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Is God a Vegetarian?: Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights

Author: Richard Alan Alan Young

Close readings of key biblical texts pertaining to dietary customs, vegetarianism, and animal rights comprise the substance of this book. Rather than ignoring or offering a literal, 20th-century interpretation of the passages, Young analyzes the voices of these conflicting dietary motifs within their own social contexts.

Choice Magazine

As a proponent of a narrative ethic of virtues, [Young] portrays the main biblical story as one of moving from the nonviolent peace of creation to the Peaceable Kingdom at the end with, in between, a divine permission of meat eating and sacrifices as a concession to human limitations and existing customs. He invites his readers to enter this story, he provides vegetarian recipes with each chapter and an epilogue on how to achieve a healthful vegetarian diet, and he answers the typical arguments of meat-eating biblical Christians. A valuable addition to any collection that deals with vegetarianism or Biblical studies.

Publishers Weekly

Young, who teaches New Testament at Temple Baptist Seminary, is as concerned with how to read scripture as he is with vegetarianism. As a result, he offers an insightful account of biblical ethics combined with an accessible argument for vegetarianism. Rather than mining scripture for proof texts, he searches for "directional markers" that serve as "flexible guidelines" for Christians looking to make moral decisions about animal rights and vegetarianism. His argument against cruelty to animals is not grounded in an abstract set of rights but in a narrative account that depicts a God intimately related to the whole of creation. Not set simply on proving that Jesus was a vegetarian, Young describes a peaceable kingdom where harmonious relations among creatures is more consistent with the Hebrew understanding of God than is a world marked by violence. Young returns repeatedly to biblical images of a peaceable kingdom and asks how we can evoke similar images in our own places and times. Each of his 13 chapters ends with two vegetarian recipes, and the epilogue offers a simple but well-documented account of "going veggie." As a whole, the book is a practical introduction to ethics made particularly accessible by sustained attention to a single popular issue. It is also an articulate case for vegetarianism that is neither simply a popular treatise on health and diet nor a political treatise on animal rights. Young's book offers a thoughtful reflection on a world of peace and justice in which, though we may not be what we eat, what we eat, and why, is an integral part of who we are. (Oct.)

Library Journal

Religions have been used to justify variations of human behavior ranging from how to wage war to ways of preserving peace. The religious reasons why humans should restrain from eating meat are the concern of these two books. Berry, historical adviser to the North American Vegetarian Society, has compiled essays discussing how the world's religions (Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, Roman Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and Sufism) have dealt with vegetarianism. Accompanying each essay is an interview with a vegetarian practitioner of that particular faith, usually a clergy member, monk, or self-proclaimed follower. The true value of this book is in these interviews, where the scholarly interpretations of religious texts come alive in the daily practices of the believers. Unlike Berry, Young (New Testament studies, Temple Baptist Seminary) restricts his perspective to biblical interpretations of text concerning the dietary laws and customs of Christians and Jews. It is through this careful reading of the Bible that he engages the reader in a discussion of the dilemma, both religious and social, of whether "real" Christians should be vegetarians. He expands his thesis to include animal testing and experimentation, the fur industry, and animal factories. Both books strongly advocate vegetarianism, and the theological arguments are biased toward non-meat eating, but this does not distract from the deep scholarship performed by both authors. For those who are seeking a religious basis for their vegetarianism, these two books are essential reading. Recommended for all libraries.--Glenn Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., Honolulu

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction
1	Was Jesus a Vegetarian?	1
2	Would a Veggie Garfield Be a Happy Cat?	15
3	Was God the First Tanner?	28
4	Was Noah's Ark an Early Food Factory?	41
5	Didn't God Permit Us to Eat Meat?	53
6	Isn't Passover Lamb the Main Entree?	65
7	Was Jesus Kosher?	77
8	Didn't John the Baptist Snack on Locusts?	90
9	Doesn't God Care about Our Health?	102
10	Didn't Paul Condemn Vegetarianism as Heresy?	115
11	Is Christian Vegetarianism Only for Desert Monks?	127
12	Will There Be Slaughterhouses in Heaven?	140
13	What Then Shall We Eat?	153
	Epilogue: Going Vegetarian	167
	Further Reading	178
	General Index	181
	Recipe Index	187