On Thursday, we bid arrivederci to the great Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. While he never visited the Philippines, his love for the country and the Filipino faithful was evident. We remember
I was happy to find out, in an interview on the online Catholic platform Dominus Est with Papal Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Charles John Brown, who had worked and traveled with Cardinal Ratzinger for over 10 years at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that the late Pope Emeritus loved sweets, specifically strudels. The late Pope Emeritus was Bavarian on the border of Austria, where the strudel was born .
Eat Like A Pope notes that Pope Benedict XVI’s childhood diet, cooked by his mother, consisted of a very festive menu: soup with liver, onion dumplings, stuffed pigeon with butter, cream and sherry and “exquisite butter and jam biscuits.” How very Babette’s Feast! No wonder he was brilliant – he ate well!
WHEN IN ROME Cantina Tirolese, the favorite restaurant of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. The restaurant serves traditional German and Austrian cuisine. —MARGAUX SALCEDO
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