The Catholic Table, by Emily Stimpson Chapman, Emmaus Road Publishing, £18.99
This book should be read by everyone who has ever thought about food or cooking. Even abstemious people, who have never over-indulged or become fixated on a new faddish diet, should read it, simply because it offers a profoundly Catholic vision of what eating (and drinking) should mean.
The author’s subtitle is “Finding Joy Where Food and Faith Meet”, and her theme is simple: the deeper our response to our faith, the more we will understand how to celebrate mealtimes, including times of fasting and feasting enjoined by the Church.
