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Father Joseph Yokum’s cooking passion started about the same time he decided to become a priest.
When priests love to cook, and even hold cooking classes for parishioners, you can bet they not only understand recipes, but they also have a devoted following. That characterizes Father Joseph Yokum at his former pastoral assignment, the Scioto Catholic Community in Portsmouth, Ohio. He and his Director of Sacred Music, Jordan Werring, started the program during the pandemic and called it “Covid Cooking with Father Joe and Jordan.”
The first event, he said, was to be a fundraiser to help their local Catholic Social Services Center and in one hour they had received pledges for more than $37,000 for food for the food pantry. But, said Father Yokum, they also worked as a way to communicate with the parish during the COVID-19 closures. They selected recipes from parishioners and Jordan, and his family favorites as well as from the cookbook, Cooking with the Saints. “We would also do bakeoffs and find our own cookie recipes and have the parishioners judge them,” he said.
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This Priest Hunts, Cooks and Has a Great Recipe for Potato Soup with Rivels
When priests love to cook, and even hold cooking classes for parishioners, you can bet they not only understand recipes, but they also have a devoted following. That characterizes Father Joseph Yokum at his former pastoral assignment, the Scioto Catholic Community in Portsmouth, Ohio. He and his Director of Sacred Music, Jordan Werring, started the program during the pandemic and called it “Covid Cooking with Father Joe and Jordan.”
The first event, he said, was to be a fundraiser to help their local Catholic Social Services Center and in one hour they had received pledges for more than $37,000 for food for the food pantry. But, said Father Yokum, they also worked as a way to communicate with the parish during the COVID-19 closures. They selected recipes from parishioners and Jordan, and his family favorites as well as from the cookbook, Cooking with the Saints. “We would also do bakeoffs and find our own cookie recipes and have the parishioners judge them,” he said.
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This Priest Hunts, Cooks and Has a Great Recipe for Potato Soup with Rivels