Everyone eats food.  It’s what binds us together.

Hatred can abound in politics, religion, class, country, but all is put aside when a green curry and a nice brew hit the table.

Food is pleasure.

Eating is the most common, yet most purely hedonistic ritual that one can engage in.

Food is leverage.

Where food comes from matters.  With every dollar I spend on food, I am casting my vote for what kind of world that I want to live in.  Do I buy food that respects the earth?  Do I buy food that helps pay workers a fair wage?

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David Rice is an MDiv student at Mars Hill Graduate School, a husband to Wendy, a father to Josiah, an amazing chef, and co-owns 5 chickens along with a huge garden in his backyard in Seattle. One of the chickens is named Chicken Booty.

100 Words are shorts that I’ve asked my friends to write on various subjects. They are intended to be small windows into how they view the world and experience reality. The only instructions they are given are a.) a one-word subject on which to write and b.) that the short must be exactly 100 words. How they interpret the subject and the form in which the 100 words are produced is up to them.