Why read The Greatest Table?

Book cover of The Greatest Table

Book description

In a world of bountiful food yet increasing food insecurity, we are called to remember that all creatures have a place - and may be fed sustainably - at the greatest, communal table offered by our planet.

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Eating

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Poetry

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Greatest Table as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Melanie Heuiser Hill

Author

This book is a poem about people gathering around food, whether at tables or on picnic blankets, breakfasts in bed, or at a sidewalk café. The illustrations are beautiful—homes around the world, and spreads of all kinds of foods. The theme is gratitude—for food, for family and friends, for the diversity of the world’s tables that together make the greatest table. This is a quiet book—one that could be read as a prayer before a meal. It is invitational: “…so if you’re hungry, join us here, pull up another chair. We’ll all scoot over, make more room, there’s always some…

From Melanie's list on sharing food.