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Article: Soul food: why fasting makes sense.(the concept of Christian fasting)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 8, 2005
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MY FIRST ENCOUNTER with Christian fasting was in a Russian kitchen in the provincial city of Krasnodar in 1991. It was November and my host, a university professor, was preparing the evening meal at the beginning of the Orthodox fast called Little Lent, which is a bit like what Catholics and Protestants call Advent. While we boiled and chopped beets, carrots and potatoes, she explained that we were making a fasting salad. She added pickles and parsley and tossed the salad in sunflower oil, salt and pepper before serving it with brown bread. Olga Nikolaevna observed a partial fast--no meat and no dairy products--for the four weeks of Little Lent, and she continued to fast ...
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