Christ on a Cracker...
...a really nice cracker. With perhaps some herbed chèvre or a little olive tapenade. With a crisp Pinot Grigio on the side.

Ahem.

When religion meets cooking, the result is wank. A small wank, mind you; it's more in the manner of tasty snack than a full meal. OK, I'll stop with the foodisms.

Seems that Alton Brown, beloved by both foodies and geeks for his show Good Eats, wrote a column for the Christian magazine Guideposts.

So far so good; the article is about how he sees the path to his success as a spiritual journey and there's a lot in there about hospitality and coincidence. His only mention of Christ and Christianity is when he talks about food and the Last Supper.

So, where's the wank?

Over on the LJ comm good_eats where lordfeldo complains that "someone got Jesus in my Alton Brown" and goes on to say "What happened to being a god of dorks? of scientists? WHAT HAPPENED!?"

Apparently the post was a lot more anti-Christian in its first incarnation--it's been edited twice now--but there's still some nice wank in the comments, where people claim you can't be scientific and religious or even spiritual at the same time and other people don't see the big deal.

Me? I'm just thinking about how a conversation between Alton and Jesus would go. I'd get cable for that show.