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More Heat, More Butter, More Salt

bread & wine by shaune niequist

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I’ve always been slightly enthralled by authors who write about food.  I devour books like The Dirty Life or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Julie & Julia (although the movie is better than the book for the last one).

I don’t even understand half the French words they use to describe the types or flavors, but I love to watch the way words create lyrics on the page. Now, mind you, I still call white sauce, well, white sauce, but there is something stupendous about the word crème being in the title, complete with the accent mark and the feeling of soft warmth.

Shauna Niequist’s new book Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table is like a beautifully preformed musical. Food, thoughts and faith all swirl together and what is created in a type of community (complete with recipes that I am dying to try).

She entices the reader into the kitchen with recipes that involve creamy goat cheese, bacon, and splashes of wine but her heart goes much deeper than the stomach. She writes to remind us all what the table is for: a place of community, a place of connection.

Bread & Wine by Shauna Niequist

Perhaps I felt her heart more clearly because of the chapter about sharing joys and heartache, where she writes through the sorrow of her years of being unable to bear another child. Perhaps it is simply the way her writing voice jumps from subject to subject and then back to food, with an extra dosage of butter and salt.

Perhaps.

Either way, I was only half way through before I was texting a friend and saying, “I have a book you need to read!” And at dinner that night, when I was frying up the onions, I turned up the heat, added a little extra salt, some butter and a splash of wine (just for good measure).

It was delightful.

To read more about Shauna, visit her website.
To read more about Bread & Wine: a love letter to life around the table with recipes visit here. 
To order a copy of the book, visit here. 
For the Kindle version, visit here. 

I received a copy of Bread & Wine from Zondervan in exchange for my honest review. 

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  1. Gretchen Louise says

    April 16, 2013 at 8:03 pm

    My hubby saw this review open on our computer and asked if I’d been listening to Moody Radio yesterday. He said their interview with Shauna was great: http://www.moodyradio.org/brd_ProgramDetail.aspx?id=107758 He hadn’t realized that it was the same author as the book with chocolate on the cover over which he’s been salivating. 😉

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  2. lexiedache says

    April 14, 2013 at 11:44 am

    So obsessed with this book. So happy to read reviews! 🙂

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  3. Amy Alves says

    April 11, 2013 at 4:08 pm

    Hey Natasha,
    I just noticed this book on Amazon the other day. Your post is giving me further consideration on it! Definitely adding it to my wish list. Blessings girl, Amy! 🙂

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  4. bethzimmerman says

    April 10, 2013 at 11:06 pm

    Second review of that one in my blog feed this week. =)

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  5. Lauren says

    April 10, 2013 at 1:44 pm

    Thank you for continual reminders that there is life outside of this infertility journey. God is good

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    March 8, 2014 at 6:01 am

    […] “She entices the reader into the kitchen with recipes that involve creamy goat cheese, bacon, and splashes of wine but her heart goes much deeper than the stomach. She writes to remind us all what the table is for: a place of community, a place of connection.” -Natasha Metzler reviews Bread and Wine: More Heat, More Butter, More Salt […]

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