Bring Your Senses to the Dinner Table

 

For those of you who have visited Linwood House, you have probably observed that my passion is a combination of preparing food that looks and tastes good and that invites your senses to be involved in the dining experience.

We have also enjoyed sitting at the table with our friends from the Downtown Eastside. The joy they experience when they come to the table set with china and silver, beautiful flowers, the fragrance of the meal wafting through the house, and getting to know each other never ceases to make my heart fill up with wonder and awe. The “sensual table” is this sacred ritual of mealtime that invites our sense of taste, smell, listening, touch and vision to call us into being present to God and to each other.

Not only is this sacred table prepared at Linwood House for our guests but it will also come to you!

One of our community churches held a “Sensual Table” evening this week. Some drew in their breath when they entered the normally plain church hall to find it alive with candle light, the table set elegantly and rose petals liberally sprinkled all over the tables. Colour greeted them at the same time as the fragrance of the roasting vegetables and the scent of the saffron rice which was part of the paella. These people generously donated funds that are going towards this event being held for our friends from the Downtown Eastside.

One day I hope they can connect face to face at the sacred meal table.

If you would like to host a Sensual Table evening to provide funding for our friends from Downtown, please contact Stephanie for bookings.