The blessings of food....

The blessing of foods.....

I have been taking various foods classes, just as I have over the years...I started cooking when I was little and took over family weeknight meals when I was in the sixth grade with both parents working....

Part of our family heritage was trying new foods, at least a taste without complaint...when I was growing up, we did this and as I had children this carried on as well...if I saw something new at the market, I would bring it home and we would taste it...not all my children like everything and they still don't, but trying new things is part of life and now my grandchildren are trying new foods as well...what fun to travel and try new fish, fruits, breads, vegetables, speciality dishes from cultures around the globe...plus we can do that  in our own towns...

God has so blessed us with foods on every continent..and sometimes enough to share with others...some kind of protein, breads, vegetables, fruits of all shape and size...

Yesterday, it was Jack fruit...the world's largest fruit, growing up to 3 feet in length and weighing 50 pounds...not something you want to hit you on the head when falling off the tree...hummmm good....

There are so many references to food in the Bible...from the provision for man in the beginning to the wedding feast in Revelation...from the provision of food in the wilderness to Jesus saying that He is the Bread of Life....

We are blessed with physical food and spiritual food, both are needful...Mary looked for Jesus' spiritual food and Martha was concerned with the physical food preparation...the little boy offered his small lunch to feed thousands...grain for Ruth and Naomi...lessons for the soul...over and over again...giving nourishment of all kinds...How God loves us to "taste" new thins of Him...from His Word and His provision...

Thank YOU for Your abundance of the physical food and spiritual food that You so freely give...Help me to feast on Your Words... 

Genesis 1:29-30 Genesis 9:3-4 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. 

Genesis 9:3-4 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 

Psalm 104:14 He makes grass grow for the cattle,and plants for people to cultivate—bringing forth food from the earth: 

John 4:34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 

2 Corinthians 9:10-11 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 

1894

A NEW COMPANY

In the beginning, the Hershey Chocolate Company was simply a wholly owned subsidiary of Milton HERSHEY'S Lancaster Caramel Company. Using chocolate-making equipment purchased at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the company produced baking chocolate, cocoa and sweet chocolate coatings for the parent company's caramels.

But things changed with the hiring of William Murrie to sell the excess product to other confectioners. Murrie was so successful a salesman that the Hershey Chocolate Company quickly turned into a viable concern on its own. Milton Hershey became even more convinced that his future in the candy business lay in chocolate, not caramels.

George Washington Carver was a prominent African-American scientist and inventor. Carveris best known for the many uses he devised for the peanut.

Kellogg's was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on February 19, 1906, by Will Keith Kellogg as an outgrowth of his work with his brother John Harvey Kellogg at the Battle Creek Sanitarium following practices based on the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The company produced and marketed the hugely successful Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes and was renamed the Kellogg Company in 1922.