Mary Ruth Wilkinson

The Moriah Pie Cookbook

Christian Living

“All cookbooks are ‘religious,’ but they usually hide that fact. Re-lig-ion is related to lig-ament, what holds things together. So we all have religion, like we all have ligaments, though we usually don’t think about them. The Moriah Pie Cookbook is the story—made up of many stories—of the way food—growing it, cooking it, eating it, sharing it—holds us together. It shows us the links—between trees, bees, soil, weather, meals, neighbors, and marriage—through the stories of one unlikely restaurant in one small community in Norwood, Ohio. The stories range from funny to sad. But by the end of the book (as Erin’s great picture on the cover shows) we know that what holds us together, in food, faith and friendship, is costly Love—which ‘bids us welcome.’”