Cookbooks

	NEW! Saints at the Dinner Table Cook up some delicious meals while stimulating quality mealtime talk. Amy Heyd offers a delicious menu of meals and dedicates each chapter to a saint who in some way inspired her to create original recipes for a complete meal- from salad to main course to dessert. Heyd combines a brief introduction to each saint, a reflection, an inspired menu, a dinner prayer, and questions for meaningful dinner discussion. You won’t want to wait to unveil this at family dinner nights, book clubs, and your supper clubs! (Item #83818) $19.95

	'Tis the Season to be Baking Christmas Reflections and Bread Recipes Father Dominic Garramone, O.S.B., acclaimed author and host of PBS TV show "Breaking Bread with Father Dominic", weaves together holiday reflections and recipes in ‘Tis the Season to Be Baking. In this new collection, Father Dominic relates nearly two-dozen holiday baking traditions to scripture and shows that holiday preparations can seem less like drudgery if we can see the purpose behind them. Did you know that the French meal fougasse represents the genealogy of Jesus or that two very different Christmas breads—the traditional German stollen and the more recent Saint Bede tradition of “Bambino Bread”—represent the Christ Child in swaddling cloths? ‘Tis the Season to Be Baking offers such wisdom and it takes bakers, holiday traditionalists, and Father Dominic fans beyond bread yet again. 5x7" softbound (Item #86454) $12.00 Fr. Dominic Garramone is a priest and monk of Saint Bede Abbey in Peru, Illinois. Following a college education in theatre, he entered the monastery in 1983 and was ordained as a priest in 1992. He describes his culinary education as taking place between my mother s kitchen and the public library, and he honed his baking skills by providing bread for the twenty-five monks of his community. He is well known to public television viewers for his cooking series Breaking Bread With Father Dominic. Father Dom teaches religion and drama at Saint Bede Academy and also enjoys herb gardening and photography.

	Bake and Be Blessed By Fr. Dominic Garramone Father Dominic offers reflections on how one simple activity -- baking bread -- can teach us to grow spiritually and live more meaningfully. Gain insight from everyday activities and live fully through meditation and prayer. With five new recipes, including Ice Cream Muffins and Oatmeal Cookies (with a very special story). Paperback, 112 pages. (Item #86957) $15.95

	Cooking with the Saints Ernst Schuegraf combines his unusual combination of skills in cooking, photography, fine arts and knowledge of saints' lives to present this unique cookbook that captures a wonderful variety of recipes and inspiring biographies of each saint. This richly illustrated treasure of ancient and modern recipes from 21 countries celebrates the Catholic tradition of honoring saints with special meals and recipes on their feast days. Some 73 saints are depicted here with over 170 recipes that cover a broad spectrum of dishes that includes main courses, side dishes, soups, snacks, breads and desserts. In addition to the wonderful recipes and stories of saints, this lavish cookbook is filled with color pictures of each dish, as well as each saint. It also offers a cooking glossary and four indices of recipes by name, saint, type and country. hardcover, 330 pages (Item #87151) $34.95

	A Continual Feast An ideal Christmas, birthday or shower present! A cookbook full of wonderful recipes and ideas drawn from throughout the Christian tradition, with suggestions about when, and why, these dishes might be served. It contains more than 275 recipes with which to celebrate all the holidays throughout the Christian year, as well as the many shared rituals that strengthen family bonds and enrich the significance of the day to day events of our lives. How these rituals, rites and feasts came about, how they are celebrated around the world, and how you can bring them into your home are described every step of the way. Includes wonderful illustrations. A Continual Feast brings new meaning to "breaking bread together." A book to cook from and learn from, it includes: menus for holidays and every day recipes for all occasions from church picnics and Sunday suppers to birthdays, namedays, confirmations, and baptisms; wonderful cooking projects for children; recipes for Christmas giving; thoughtful suggestions on taking food to others; customs associated with many great Christian holidays from Advent through Pentecost as well as various saints days around the world; traditional meanings associated with particular foods; tips on fasting and abstinence; recipes that incorporate leftovers; quotations from the Bible and various theological and gastronomic sources; many recipes of varied ethnic origins; a wealth of Christian history and thought. Hardcover, 304 pages (Item #IG-9780898703849) $19.95*

	Good Cooking Habits Food for Your Body, Your Soul, and Your Funnybone by Nun Other Than Sr. Karol Jackowski A not so typical cookbook from a not so typical nun! Karol Jackowski's thirty-eight years as a nun and twenty-five years as a food enthusiast come together in *Good Cooking Habits*. Sr. Karol's warmth, sense of humor, and love of good food jump off the page as she complements over 100 recipes with Catholic nostalgia, childhood memories, and humorous stories and anecdotes from her early years as a Sister. (Item #87134) $14.95

	CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL- COOKBOOK - Jack Canfield The kitchen is the heart of the home. So much of life is lived around the family table: we tell stories, review the day, pass on traditions, grieve our losses, resolve differences, introduce new loves and celebrate holidays. In the preparing and sharing of meals we create deep memories that we carry with us forever. In the flavor of Chicken Soup for the Soul, here is a joyful collection of heartwarming stories accompanied by mouthwatering recipes. Seasoned with heartfelt blessings, this marvelous book will help you revisit time-honored values and foster the sharing of meaningful conversation--and new recipes--at mealtime. (Item #81115) $16.95