10 Mar, 2010
A Little Mustard Goes a Long Way.
The World's Smallest Finger Food
By Elena Ferretti
Caterer hits the big time with miniature meals.
In the movie “Fantastic Voyage,” Raquel Welch and her crew board a submarine which is miniaturized and injected into a Russian scientist who was shot by his comrades while trying to defect. In the story, both the US and the USSR possess technology that can miniaturize anything - rockets, nuclear bombs - but the American version lasts only for an hour. The defector has figured out how to extend it indefinitely, but is suffering from an inoperable blood clot, and the clock is ticking as Welch and company try to destroy it before they return to full size while still inside of him. What delicious irony.
You’d think Peter Callahan would love this movie, but he hasn’t even seen it. He’s the Philadelphia and New York-based caterer who single-handedly sparked a national trend by miniaturizing comfort food, which people happily inject into their own mouths.
“I didn’t consciously think, ‘I’m going to shrink everything in sight.’ It just happened,” says Callahan of the mini ground sirloin burger hors d’oeuvre with hand-made seeded buns that started it all. He then filled mini-cones with mini frites and turned mac and cheese into bite-size jewels. He went on to shrink the entire canon of breakfast food, even designing mini-bread pans to bake bread for tiny French toast.
By Elena Ferretti
Caterer hits the big time with miniature meals.
In the movie “Fantastic Voyage,” Raquel Welch and her crew board a submarine which is miniaturized and injected into a Russian scientist who was shot by his comrades while trying to defect. In the story, both the US and the USSR possess technology that can miniaturize anything - rockets, nuclear bombs - but the American version lasts only for an hour. The defector has figured out how to extend it indefinitely, but is suffering from an inoperable blood clot, and the clock is ticking as Welch and company try to destroy it before they return to full size while still inside of him. What delicious irony.
You’d think Peter Callahan would love this movie, but he hasn’t even seen it. He’s the Philadelphia and New York-based caterer who single-handedly sparked a national trend by miniaturizing comfort food, which people happily inject into their own mouths.
“I didn’t consciously think, ‘I’m going to shrink everything in sight.’ It just happened,” says Callahan of the mini ground sirloin burger hors d’oeuvre with hand-made seeded buns that started it all. He then filled mini-cones with mini frites and turned mac and cheese into bite-size jewels. He went on to shrink the entire canon of breakfast food, even designing mini-bread pans to bake bread for tiny French toast.
Luke 17:5-6 (New Living Translation)
5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.”
6 The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,’ and it would obey you!
What does God's Story scripture teach us about how little faith we have?5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.”
6 The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,’ and it would obey you!
When I was a high school student, I was given a little card with this scripture printed on it and a mustard seed glued above the scripture. I would stare at the mustard seed and get irritated with myself because the seed was so small. It was small enough it was hard to focus on. It bothered me most of all because it appeared that I had not much faith.
Just before Jesus points to the mustard seed he talks about forgiveness (not forgiving once, but numerous times). He seems to piece the two, faith and forgiveness, together. Forgiveness will be hard for you until you have enough faith to believe that God will heal the situation.
It takes faith to offer forgiveness, especially if you know you might be hurt again.
How can we connect today's God's Story scripture to our lives?
There is a question here for us. Do you have enough faith to forgive? With a little faith it is no big deal to toss a tree in a lake, yet we struggle with three words – "I forgive you."
Here are three things you can do to grow your forgiveness faith...
1. Find every instance in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John of Jesus talking about forgiveness. Read them and memorize your favorite.
2. Practice saying out loud the words "I forgive you." That way your mouth knows how to say them when they are needed.
3. Ask people to forgive you when you mess up. Don't let them just say "It's alright." Let them know you need them to say those three powerful words - "I forgive you."
There is a question here for us. Do you have enough faith to forgive? With a little faith it is no big deal to toss a tree in a lake, yet we struggle with three words – "I forgive you."
Here are three things you can do to grow your forgiveness faith...
1. Find every instance in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John of Jesus talking about forgiveness. Read them and memorize your favorite.
2. Practice saying out loud the words "I forgive you." That way your mouth knows how to say them when they are needed.
3. Ask people to forgive you when you mess up. Don't let them just say "It's alright." Let them know you need them to say those three powerful words - "I forgive you."
How can we connect today's story, God's Story scripture, and our story to others?
If you have a mustard seed to show, this is one of those parts of God's story where you can say "Hey listen to this," and people will listen because it is just wacky enough. With everyone looking at the seed, or thinking about it, you get to ask about forgiveness and how hard it can be to forgive people, as well as how much harder it gets each time they do wrong to us.
You can also talk about how much Jesus has forgiven us. You can share how Jesus said "Father forgive them" while he was hanging on the cross.
From the moment you get the mustard seed, say a prayer that Jesus will use it to open up a discussion in the future.
If you have a mustard seed to show, this is one of those parts of God's story where you can say "Hey listen to this," and people will listen because it is just wacky enough. With everyone looking at the seed, or thinking about it, you get to ask about forgiveness and how hard it can be to forgive people, as well as how much harder it gets each time they do wrong to us.
You can also talk about how much Jesus has forgiven us. You can share how Jesus said "Father forgive them" while he was hanging on the cross.
From the moment you get the mustard seed, say a prayer that Jesus will use it to open up a discussion in the future.
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