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Hospitality for Healing: Recovering Care Traditions for Convalescence
Hospitality for Healing Recovering Care Traditions for Convalescence Author:Melissa Naasko Seasoning her advice and recipes with warmth and wisdom, Matushka Melissa Naasko brings us the living tradition of convalescent cookery learned from a lifetime of hospitality. From her reading about monastic caretaking, to her hands-on learning in her abuela’s kitchen, to the mutual caretaking of dear friends, to feeding her household, to ... more »feeding her whole church family and the monks at the monastery attached to the church where her husband serves, these recipes and kitchen skills carry forward a lost tradition of caring for people going through long recoveries. Feeding our loved ones nutritious and health-appropriate food is a layer of stress Matushka Melissa can take away from you with her recipes.
With the practicality readers have come to expect from her workshops and popular cookbook Fasting as a Family, Naasko highlights what it means to help others recuperate in a time when new and chronic illnesses are more common than ever.« less