Overview
Chateau Chantal’s Founding Owner Publishes Life Story Nadine Begin, founder and Bed & Breakfast chef at Chateau Chantal, has released her first cookbook, Feed my Lambs, Feed my Sheep-The Meals and Memories of a Lifetime, detailing her varied life experiences and the recipes that accompanied each stage. At the request of many B&B guests to have a book about these life experiences and recipes, Nadine spent the past few years compiling her recipes and writing her story. This is an amazing true tale of one woman’s life and her relationship with family, friends, Jesus, and cooking. The cookbook story leads you through Nadine’s winding road beginning with life in 1932 on a Michigan farm, to 22 years as a home-economics teaching nun, life in Detroit as a wife to a former Catholic priest and mother, and a move to Northern Michigan as a winery and B&B founder. The stories from each of these life stages are enhanced with full color photos, poetry by local poet, Earlene McMillin, and recipes that match what Nadine was preparing during those years for her varied audiences. Recipes range from Polish family traditions, 10 years of Bed & Breakfast specialties, multi-course dinner party compilations, decadent desserts and scrumptious candies. Nadine’s daughter, Marie-Chantal, comments, “I’m so proud of my Mom’s effort and determination in writing this book, it’s such an interesting compilation of our family photos, life stories, familiar foods, and the deep connection to God which my Mother expresses in her daily life.”