EAT IT !: Pope Francis Favorite Foods

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Pope Francis Favorite Foods

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Pope Francis Eating with 60 elderly citizens of Florence

POPE FRANCIS Favorite FOODS

Bake CHICKEN, PIZZA, PASTA, CHEESE

EATING ? POPE FRANCIS KEEPS it SIMPLE

OK, let's get one thing straight: By and large, Pope Francis does have a fairly modest diet, especially compared to some of his predecessors. Boniface VIII, for example, ate everything off solid gold tableware while Clement VI literally put the "Pape" in Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Francis, however, is a simpler man. He refuses to wear some of the role's more lavish garments, prefers a sedan to a limousine (a vintage 1984 Renault 4, to be exact), and doesn't mess around with ridiculous headwear.

This simplicity, naturally, extends to his eating habits. He has rarely, if ever, stopped by the two Roman restaurants usually frequented by cardinals and bishops, and his first dinner with the College of Cardinals after his selection to the papacy was a simple pasta dish. Usual dinners might be made up of such trappings as baked chicken with salad, fruit and a glass of wine. The pope may be a lot of things, but one thing he's not is gastronomically extravagant — in any way, shape or form.

BREAKFAST

The POPE'S MEMBRILLO

Pope Francis' daily routine is about as strenuous as you might expect. He wakes up at 4:30 a.m. (!), prays for two hours, meditates and prepares his morning homily. After mass, Francis does a meet-and-greet with some of his followers before breakfast in the hotel dining room at the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta, where he lives. His breakfast is pretty much in keeping with his diet — he'll have freshly-squeezed orange juice (a luxury, actually, considering others in the hotel are only given boxed juices) and something called Membrillo.

Membrillo, for the uninitiated, is a sort of gelatinous jellylike street made of quince and is highly popular in Argentina, where Francis grew up. It's made by reducing quince pieces to a purée, adding sugar and lemon juice, then cooking until it's thick and dark. It's not exactly the most popular or extravagant dish you'll find in Spanish cooking (and certainly not in Italy), but if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for you.

So, Pope Francis may not exactly be hosting ridiculous banquets every day or feasting throughout the nights, but his simple diet is, at least, sustained by a fine range of seasonal ingredients and vegetables. In keeping with his writing in Laudato si', Pope Francis' second encyclical, where he states that the fight against injustice and inequality begins with the land, water, agriculture and food, the produce used in the pope's meals are fresh and home-grown.

"HAPPY BIRtHDAY PAPA" !!!

Pope Francis celebrated his 81st Birthday, but instead of using a cake, he opted to blow his candle out on something cheesier.

A used an extra-long 13-foot pizza to celebrate along with a group of kids from the Vatican pediatric clinic, the Dispensario Santa Marta, who helped blow out the single candle.

The POPES FAVORITE FOODS

SECRET RECIPES