Author talk: Food for Thought, Character and Soul
Rabbi Phillip Posner will be sharing his new book “Food for Thought, Character and Soul” on Thursday, April 3, at 6 p.m. in the library auditorium.
This work of creative non-fiction blends scrumptious recipes with extraordinary dialog with some of history’s most interesting and inspiring individuals. Recipes and blessings included.
Register today by calling (812) 265-2744.
Here’s more about the book…
The good chef, author and rabbi, Philip M. Posner, has a lot to say on ethics, in “Food for Thought, Character, and Soul—Recipes and Blessings Included.” If his recipes are very good, which they are, then his lessons are even better. He contemplates how our individual character, what he calls “soul talk,” is a bridge to our past, present, and future.
With intriguing recipes such as Marry Todd Lincoln’s delicious almond vanilla cake, the author has done his research and at times we can even imagine ourselves at his dining table, celebrating a wonderful meal and discussion with him and his famous friends. A veritable, viable, and enlightening education in seven universal ethical character traits, he and his friends serve up sage advice with a non judgmental grace that welcomes inclusion and avoids dogma. His dialogues read as essays on how as individuals and a society we can live healthier lives, nurtured by character and delicious food.
Praise for the book
“Through the creative power of memory and our own acute sense of taste, the rabbi’s role models unite us with what is universally good in a way that links us to the past, sanctifies the present, and provides us with feelings of hope for humanity’s salvation—our future collective good.”
—Rajmohan Gandhi, Author of Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire, and other books about his grandfather.
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