Better Than Jimmy Carter Cake: Discussing Mennonite Community Cookbooks with Amy Harris-Aber

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. 

• Amy's website
• Amy's article on Russian Mennonite Community Cookbooks

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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