A young chef from the Vatican’s Swiss Guards has published a cookbook featuring the favourite recipes of Pope Francis and his predecessors.
David Geisser, 24, who joined the elite Vatican security corps only a month ago, released his book, titled “Buon Appetito”, this week.
The cookbook includes recipes for Francis’ favourite dishes, such as empanadas; roast sirloin, known as “colita de cuadril”; and “dulce de leche”, a milk-based Argentinian dessert that began appearing on Vatican dining tables last year.
But it also features one of St John Paul II’s favourite dishes, Polish pierogi, or stuffed dumplings, and Bavarian delicacies favoured by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
Recipes favoured by the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, include gnocchi Vatican-style.
The prefect of the papal household, Msgr Georg Gaenswein, likes veal saltimbocca alla Romana.
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