The Catholic Foodie Integrates Catholic Aspects into Posts and Recipes

I was so excited to come across this review of CatholicFoodie.com the other day. It was published over a year ago by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne in Australia.

What do I love about it?

They actually get it. Rebecca Comini gets what I am trying to do with The Catholic Foodie.

Thank you, Rebecca, for the awesome review!

“The ‘Catholicity’ of the site is not explicit—there are no holy pictures or prayers on the homepage! Rather, Jeff Young has integrated the Catholic aspects into his posts and recipes. For example, a post about Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and the Memorare fits seamlessly between posts about hatch chile chicken tortilla soup and Lebanese hummus and home-made pita bread.”Rebecca Comini, Kairos Catholic Journal, Monday 3 March 2014

‘Where food meets faith’ is the tagline for The Catholic Foodie website (catholicfoodie.com).

The site was established in 2008 by Jeff Young, an American ‘husband, father and former educator’ who is ‘passionate about faith, family, community, education … and food!’

Based in New Orleans, Louisiana, it is not surprising that ‘Southern comfort’ food seems to be his speciality. One recent post explains the difference between Creole and Cajun cooking and how both cuisines came to be synonymous with his home state.

The ‘Catholicity’ of the site is not explicit—there are no holy pictures or prayers on the homepage! Rather, Jeff Young has integrated the Catholic aspects into his posts and recipes. For example, a post about Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and the Memorare fits seamlessly between posts about hatch chile chicken tortilla soup and Lebanese hummus and home-made pita bread.

Each article and recipe is tagged, so if you are after a particular type of meal—main, salad, dessert or cuisine—it is easy to find.

The recipes call for many US-centric ingredients, but with the help of Google it is easy to track down where to buy unusual ingredients or to find out the alternative Australian name for ingredients listed in his recipes.

As with many websites these days, The Catholic Foodie also has a presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a popular podcast available through iTunes or on the website.

You can also subscribe to his website and receive email updates.

http://www.cam.org.au/News-and-Events/Reviews/Website-Reviews/Article/16341/The-Catholic-Foodie