Lore Lee Parrott is distinguished for developing her gift as hostess into a joyful ministry. She grew up in an Indiana district superintendent's home where dinner table hospitality was a way of life with friends and strangers. She hosted food events of all kinds in the parsonages and church facilities where she thrived in the role of pastor's wife. And now, for more than two decades, she has been the unofficial hostess on the college campus in the president's homes where she has lived.
Lora Lee's hallmark is tasty food and pleasant surroundings. Her home entertainment standards are reachable. The recipes she recommends are seldom gourmet and may be prepared from the usual store of pantry supplies in an average home where quality cooking is appreciated. Lora Lee Parrott's Sunday Dinner can be almost addictive. The men and women who cook from it are its patrons who often use it for gifts. Some even say I live out of Sunday Dinner. It's my kind of cooking.
Mrs. Parrott's husband, Les Sr., is the president of a midwestern Christian school. Their three sons are living out their lives of service as a pastor, Christian college president, and Christian university professor. Mrs. Parrott's formal education ended with a master of arts degree, but she is a lifelong student of the home as a bulwark of love and security and the kitchen as the center of the social support system for this ideal. Other popular books by Lora Lee Parrott include her first, Meals from the Manse, and a new one, Come Over to My House, with many party and devotional books in between.
