AMISH COOKS ACROSS AMERICA: This is camping season and among the Amish outdoor summer sojourns are popular. This is true everywhere, but perhaps nowhere more so than Montana’s Amish communities. Outdoor enthusiasts are drawn to the region by the ample outdoor opportunities and varieties of wild game Here is an excerpt about this photo from […] Read more
UPDATE: So, who watched the Today Show interview with Paula Deen? PR experts say her apology was a failure and apparently her sponsors thought so too. Ceaser’s Palace and Smithfield Foods have severed their ties with Paula Deen over the past 48 hours. While her apology may have not passed muster with PR experts, I […] Read more
BUMBLEBERRY PIE: I’ve run this recipe before, but it is a summer favorite, so let’s run it again! No such thing as a bumbleberry, so please don’t go to your local grocer asking for them. Read more
RASPBERRY MUFFINS: We’re heading into the summer berry season. Amish cooks and bakers will be scouring fence lines and fields for ripe mulberries, chokecherries, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries. Out west the Amish make use of the local huckleberries. Berries can find their way into juices, shakes, pies, breads, and jams. This is locovorism at its […] Read more
AMISH GAMES:The Amish aren’t all work and no play. The serious, somber side that many outsiders think of when they see the Amish isn’t at all representative. Lovina has written in the Amish Cook column about her family’s enjoyment of card games like Dutch Blitz and a game called Aggravation. Read more
Harvey Yoder photo This week’s episode of Amish, Etc features a fascinating discussion with Harvey Yoder. Harvey is a minister, marriage counselor, and author based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. I discovered Harvey’s writings on Harvspot, his blog of spiritual and personal musings. He was raised in an Old Order Amish church until age 15 when his […] Read more
AMISH BUGGY RIDE VIDEO: I was at a picnic in Indiana over the weekend and one of the Amish men in attendance, a gregarious fellow named David, was nice enough to offer buggy rides to some of the non-Amish children. Read more
