The monastic kitchen often provide yak butter tea during the routine sutra-chanting assembly in the morning and afternoon in the main hall of a monastery. The major product of a monastic kitchen might ...

Let's get one thing straight: Being cloistered has never been an ambition of mine. A few years ago, in Rome, a priest tried to recruit me. "You never know whom the Lord will call," he told me. We were ...

Brother d'Avila-Latourrette is resident cook and gardener at Our Lady of the Resurrection monastery in upstate New York, and his devotion to home-grown, seasonal produce is evident on every page of ...

The Spartan existence of the Benedictine permeates the latest cookbook from celebrated monk and author Brother Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourrette. Like an ancient knight of the Round Table, he tends ...

For nearly 20 years, St. John the Forerunner Greek Orthodox Monastery has sat just off the highway near Goldendale. Enclosed in woods, the complex is home to 22 nuns and novices who have devoted ...

For nearly 20 years, St. John the Forerunner Greek Orthodox Monastery has sat just off the highway near Goldendale. Enclosed in woods, the complex is home to 22 nuns and novices who have devoted ...