Book - Dining with the Saints: The Sinners Guide to a Righteous Feast | Cooking | Religion

Whether you’re a sinner or a saint, this book promises an unforgettable feast! 

"Feed my sheep," Christ told Peter.  Taking that charge seriously, priest and celebrity chef Father Leo Patalinghug teams up with Michael Foley, author of the framed Drinking with the Saints, to turn dinnertime into a heavenly banquet. 

Cooking your way through the liturgical year, you'll get to know the saints and enjoy dishes ingeniously connected to their lives and legends:

• Celebrate St. Valentine's Day with Paella for Two - with contrasting ingredients cooked together and served from one dish, it's what love would look like if it were a recipe. 
• Commemorate St. Franceis of Assisi by serving mouth- watering Umbrian-Style Pan-Roasted Chicken and Sausage
• Honor the founder of Western monasticism with the perfect Eggs Benedict Hollandaise
• Keep the feast of Mary Magdalene by baking Madeleines, dainty lemon-and-butter-flavored sponge cakes shaped like the pilgrim's seashell and dipped in melted chocolate.

Throughout the Gospels we see Jesus at the dinner table - teaching, healing, and revealing the Good News of salvation. Following the Master's example, Dining with the Saints will enrich your family's meals with food for body and soul. 

Father Leo Patalinguag is an award-winning chef and author, a widely acclaimed speaker, the founder of the international food and faith movement Plating Grace, and the host of Savoring Our Faith on EWTN. A priest of the Voluntas Dei community, he lives in Baltimore.

Michael P. Foley, the author of Drinking with the Saints, Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Fridays?, and a dozen other books, teaches in the Great Texts program at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.