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A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages by Dr Andrew Jotischky (Hardcover, 2011)

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ISBN-13: 9780826423931, 978-0826423931. What did they eat, and how did unethical monks get around the rules?. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food?. "A Hermit's Cookbook" opens with stories and penportraits of the Desert Fathers of early Christianity and their followers who were ascetic solitaries, hermits and pillar-dwellers.