{"id":55917,"date":"2013-05-30T20:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T02:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/harvest-tasting-will-benefit-graces-kitchen\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:38:31","slug":"harvest-tasting-will-benefit-graces-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/harvest-tasting-will-benefit-graces-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest tasting will benefit Grace\u2019s Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ed3ee759-a54c-4cf6-a827-bfbe53a32337&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"325\" height=\"380\" alt=\"Neel\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Neel<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event is a fundraiser for Grace\u2019s Kitchen, a Jubilee Ministry of St. Barnabas. A silent auction will be held during the tasting with elegant baskets from many states, countries, and regions of the world. Italy, Ethiopia, Wisconsin, Guatemala, Arizona, Mexico, New England, and Patagonia will be among them. Tickets for the lecture, food tasting, auction, and book signing are $15 ($20 with wine).<\/p>\n<p>Neel previously owned a Dallas-based catering company, Mana Catering, which specialized in replicating four-course first century banquets. Mana served meals for groups ranging from 20 to 100 diners. Neel now lives with his wife, Sally Logee Neel, in Pagosa Springs, where he makes his own cheese, bread, wine, and beer. He serves as pastor for St. Patrick\u2019s Episcopal Church and travels as a lecturer on ancient food and food culture.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first book for Neel and his coauthor, Joel A. Pugh. They have begun planning several others, the first of which will focus on the diet and foods of both ancient Greece and Rome. \u201cThe Food and Feasts of Jesus\u201d is a finalist for a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year in the Cooking Category. This prestigious award will be decided at the American Library Association convention this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Neel at his blog: http:\/\/firstcenturygourmet.wordpress.com or on Facebook \u2013 The Food and Feasts of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neeldu1-i-syn The event is a fundraiser for Grace\u2019s Kitchen, a Jubilee Ministry of St. Barnabas. A silent auction will be held during the tasting with elegant baskets from many states, countries, and regions of the world. Italy, Ethiopia, Wisconsin, Guatemala, Arizona, Mexico, New England, and Patagonia will be among them. Tickets for the lecture, food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-55917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56289,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55917\/revisions\/56289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55917"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=55917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}