This article is adapted from the December 11, 2021, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. When you work at Gastro Obscura, you get excited about some pretty niche topics. Obscure livestock? Yes, tell me more about this endangered, fuzzy pig. Someone is rescuing a forgotten fruit? That’s our jam. Archaeologists recovering amphorae of wine from ancient shipwrecks? Hell yeah. But there is one category that consistently delights me: how monks, nuns, and other members of religious orders sell or share their heavenly food and…
