Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Food & Life Grazing: Considerations on the sin of gluttony
Posted by CL staff @cl_atlanta on Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:16 PM
- Eric Cash/CL file
- Contestants in the 2011 Chomp and Stomp eating contest. The contestants were given a tub of coleslaw and 60 seconds to eat as much slaw as possible. There was a tie for first place, the prize a $50 gift certificate to Agave, but let's be honest, everyone who got to see 6 adults dive into a pound of coleslaw was a winner.
Matt Hinton rocked from foot to foot while he read aloud from his iPhone. We were at his restaurant, Bell Street Burritos, newly located in the Irwin Street Market. He opened there last week after losing the lease on his location in West Midtown.
Hinton, a theologian and Sacred Harp musician, went into the burrito business after losing his teaching gigs at Morehouse and Spelman colleges in 2009.
He was reading to me from a C. S. Lewis novel after I asked him about gluttony, one of the Seven Deadly Sins. The book, The Screwtape Letters, contains satirical correspondence in which a senior devil mentors a newbie in the art of temptation. That includes using food to bait people into gluttony...
Read the full story by Cliff Bostock here.
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