In "Twelve Months of Monastery Salads", best-selling author Brother Victor-Antoine celebrates salads, a cuisine in harmony with traditional monastic cooking, which relies a great deal on the seasonal harvest of the monastery garden and utilizes simple, fresh, wholesome ingredients. This collection of 200 delicious, satisfying salads is organized according to the seasons and includes salads that honor saints and salads from culinary traditions around the world. As Brother Victor states in the book's introduction, A salad, carefully prepared, is always an occasion for celebration.