Good Food

Good Food informs us of the injustices and unsustainable practices in our current food systems, and it gives us hope we can do better by telling us stories of people who actually are. It shows us how each meal we eat is an invitation to moral responsibility.

~Theodore Hiebert, Francis A. McGaw Professor of Old Testament, McCormick Theological Seminary

Good Food is a concise, crisply written, and evocative account of the ways food is woven into the material and social well-being of the world's people. Blending history, nuanced readings of Christian traditions, and a diverse array of contemporary examples from North Carolina to Mexico, Ayres crafts a call to action around food production, consumption and imagination.

~Jill DeTemple, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University

Preachers and homileticians will find Good Food to be informative, persuasive, and pragmatic for crafting theological responses in classrooms, pulpits, and the public sphere to food insecurity at multiple registers.

~Gerald C. Liu, The Theological School, Drew University, Homiletic

Caught in a bad system yet hoping for an eschatological feast, we must both endure and repair, repent and rejoice, theologize more honestly, and act more faithfully. Ayres shows us the way.

~D Brent Laytham, The Christian Century

This scholarly book ought to be read by practical theologians, ethicists, those engaged in teaching the arts of ministry, and all those committed (or vehemently opposed) to doing theology by engaging lived human experience in grounded ways.

~Kate Lassiter, Mount St. Joseph University, Interpretation

Good Food is a very good book, one of the very best introductions both to the problems of our current food system and to the deep Christian sources of some of the solutions to those problems.

~Loren Wilkinson, Regent College, Theology Today