"[Sack mixes] serious inquiry with a healthy dollop of humor. [he] has rearranged a culture most often viewed as mainstream and boring and effectively served it up as a complex and even exotic morsel." - New York Times Book Review "Every chapter is informative.The very trajectory of Mr. Sack's narrative shows how a universal ethic, common to Christians and others, nonbelievers no less than believers, became the keynote of mainline Protestant approaches to food." - New York Times "[An] engaging account of the role played by food in white, middle-class churches." - The Christian Century "Sack. covers a lot of ground in considerable detail.

" - Library Journal "Sack explores some of the nuances of the connection between church and food with deep affection." - Chicago Tribune.