{"id":27527,"date":"2013-09-04T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=27527"},"modified":"2013-09-04T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:04:21","slug":"bless-this-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/bless-this-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless This Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"saying_grace-large\"<\/a>So I had every intention of posting the next installment in the Approaching Zion Project<\/a> today. But Labor Day weekend (and, specifically, houseguests, the Chicago Jazz Festival<\/a>,[fn1] and a Cubs<\/a> game[fn2]) intervened and, well, I’m not ready.<\/p>\n

But Monday night’s dinner with our guests brought up a question, and I thought I’d ask for an unrepresentative sampling of answers. Specifically, we were Pequod’s Pizza<\/a>[fn3] and, when the pizza came, one of our guests said grace. Out loud.<\/p>\n

Our guest is a Christian (though I don’t know what, if any, denomination), raised in the South.<\/p>\n

So my question is: do you pray over food when you eat out? If so, do you do it to yourself or out load? And where are you from?<\/p>\n

I’ll go first: I do not pray over food when I eat out (even though we pray over our food when we eat meals at home). I’m a lifelong Mormon, and I grew up in Southern California.<\/p>\n

Okay, your turn.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

[fn1] Which, apropos of nothing Mormon-y, if you get a chance, you really should see Jason Moran’s Fats Waller Dance Party<\/a>\u00a0if it comes to your town. I’ve never been as blown away by a performance as I was Saturday night.<\/p>\n

[fn2] And yes, I’m trying to make you jealous of life in Chicago. One of these days, I’m going to write a Why Mormons Love Big Cities post. But not until I at least finish the AZP.<\/p>\n

[fn3] In spite of living in Chicago, I prefer New York- or Roman-style pizza to deep dish. Pequod’s is the one exception that I’ve found: it’s really, really good deep dish pizza. (Is there any other decent deep dish? I’m not a fan of Giordano’s<\/a>, Gino’s East<\/a>, Lou Malnati’s<\/a>, or Pizzeria Uno<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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