Things, as they say, ain’t what they used to be. As the daughter of a former Benedictine monk who, now aged 91, still talks about the delicious food cooked by the nuns during his abbey days, I can see how much things have changed.
Today, priests seldom have housekeepers, cooks, or even nuns to help with the cooking. Many priests who must cook for their community or just themselves, have to ask the age-old question, “What should we have for dinner?”
The urgency of this dilemma came to me after a conversation with a friend, a priest, who – short of time like many of today's overburdened clergy – shares the cooking with the other priests in the community. He told me that one of the hardest things about day-to-day cooking is deciding what to make, along with the relentless task of food shopping.
