Hospitality for Healing

Seasoned with warmth and wisdom, Matushka Melissa Naasko brings us the living tradition of convalescent cookery learned from a lifetime of hospitality. From Mat. Melissa’s 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 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. With the practicality readers have come to expect from her workshops and popular cookbook Fasting as a Family, Mat. Melissa highlights what it means to help others recuperate in a time when new and chronic illnesses are more common than ever.