I collect recipes. I have some passed down from family members on 3”x5” cards. They are those family favorites that every family has in their collection. A few years ago, I discovered an internet app called “Paprika”, which allows recipes to be stored online. It has access to other recipe sites like Tast of Home and Gourmet magazines, famous chefs and cooks like Nigella Lawson, Gordon Ramsey, Paula Dean, and many others, as well as TV shows like America’s Test Kitchen and The Kitchen. It is possible to find almost any recipe imaginable and download it to the app. I now have amassed a collection which I could not make in three lifetimes.
The closest we come to a recipe in scripture is the list of items included in Passover, but there are lots of references to food, drink, and eating. When Esau comes in from a fruitless hunt, he is captivated by the smell of red beans cooking. My fantasy sees this as an early example of chili (unless you come from Texas where no beans are included). Love Feast and communion give us other continuing examples. Food becomes an occasion for celebration, fellowship, even worship and spiritual insight, especially from Jesus as the spiritual Bread of Life.