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July 23, 2025 64 mins

This week is part 2 of our cookbook series! We chat with Amy Harris-Aber, about Community Cookbooks - informally published cookbooks often associated with families, camps, or churches. We chat about Amy's research on Mennonite cookbooks, discuss our fave recipes and cookbooks, and much much more. 

Cookbooks / articles / books mentioned: 

  • Feminist Rhetorical Practices – Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch
  • Goessel Centennial Cook Book
  • Rosie Grant - Gravestone Recipes (book), ghostly.archive (Insta account) 
  • Tasteful Domesticity – Sarah Walden
  • Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories – Ann Bower
  • Melting Pot of Mennonite Cookery 
  • History of Cookbooks - Henry Notiker
  • Claiming a Piece of Tradition: Community Discourse in Russian Claiming a Piece of Tradition: Community Discourse in Russian Mennonite Community Cookbooks by Amy Harris-Aber
  • Erin’s -  Memories and Recipes from the family of Jesse & Anna Shetler 
  •  Abby’s - Wilderness Wind cookbook, 2nd edition
  • Tillie’s - From the Kitchens of CMC (Columbus Mennonite Church)



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