"For one who thinks food in itself is……" — Alexander Schmemann
"For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse."
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Alexander Schmemann
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