Hospitality for Healing: Recovering Care Traditions for Convalescence

Any illness adds stress to community or family life. Feeding our loved ones nutritious and health-appropriate food is a layer of stress Matushka Melissa can take away from you with her recipes.Hospitality during illness is vital, and this book can ease the burden a caregiver bears at a critical time–keep Hospitality for Healing with your cookbooks for times of need.
~Jessica Archuleta, Every Home a Monastery
Seasoning her advice and recipes with warmth and wisdom, 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 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, Naasko highlights what it means to help others recuperate in a time when new and chronic illnesses are more common than ever.
About the Author Melissa Naasko's gift of setting people at ease with her warm competence and kindness shines in this collection of recipes and kitchen skills that support loved ones as they recuperate. Pull up a chair and learn from her experience as a granddaughter of healing family cooks, a mother of eleven, a caterer, and a priest's wife (matushka) in the rugged wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where her husband serves a church attached to a monastery.