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Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette is the author of six cookbooks including the best-selling Twelve Months of Monastery Soups and From a Monastery Kitchen. He is a resident monk at Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, where he serves as a cook and gardener, tending the two gardens and greenhouse that provide the produce and herbs for the monastery. He supplies homemade vinegars, jams, and dried herbs to the Millbrook Winery, where his cookbooks are also sold.

Brother Victor-Antoine was brought up in the south of France and trained as an apprentice cook in a French monastery. Later he moved to the United States and earned two master’s degrees from Columbia University. He wrote his first cookbook, From a Monastery Kitchen, to help raise funds to buy property for his order. The original edition was so successful it was reprinted 14 times and Brother Victor was asked to write a revised edition 20 years after the original publication.

He has been featured in several newspapers and magazines as well as on television programs such as CBS Morning News, ABC’s Good Morning America, the Food Network, and QVC. He regularly gives cooking tutorials at places such as the Omega Institute, local churches, and bookstores. Brother Victor-Antoine lives near Millbrook, New York.