Feast Day Cookbook The Traditional Catholic Feast Day Dishes of Many Lands

Two well-known writers here join forces to describe the special and traditional Catholic feast day dishes of many lands. Whereas the the variety in Christmas, New Year, and Easter observances is known, less familiar are the special foods for "Mothering Sunday," "Maundy Thursday," "Lamas Day." Few know that the origin of the veal cutlet is attributed to St. Ambrose, who thus prepared the meat he gave to the po that the favorite sweetmeat of St. Francis of Assisi was Frangipa or that in Italy a cake called "Sphinx" is traditionally served on St. Joseph's Day. We learn the forgotten origin of many well-known dishes, and the family is provided with numerous recipes to restore these wonderful traditional customs. With a table of movable feasts.Burton, Katherine is the author of 'Feast Day Cookbook The Traditional Catholic Feast Day Dishes of Many Lands' with ISBN 9780977616855 and ISBN 0977616851.