How To Think About the Eucharist I

A Guide for the Perplexed

I am an amateur connoisseur of Italian, Greek, and the wider family of “Middle Eastern” food. I’m a devotee of Lidia Bastianich and Giorgio Locatelli; I prefer stuffed peppers in a Greek taverna to gyros; Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem is my favorite cookbook. In our culture, we talk a lot about the “Mediterranean Diet,” which consists primarily of olive …