Heavenly gift hasa place on menus

After several weeks of wandering the desert, the Israelites fleeing Egypt were hungry.

So God conjured up two things for them to eat, the Bible says. In the evening, there were quails.

"In the morning," the Book of Exodus says, "there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, 'What is it?' "