An updated edition of a bestselling book in the food writing genre from award-winning author and journalist Edna Staebler. In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook Food That Really Schmecks . Originally published in 1968, Food That Really Schmecks instantly became a classic, selling tens of thousands of copies. Interspersed with practical and memorable recipes are Staebler's ...
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An updated edition of a bestselling book in the food writing genre from award-winning author and journalist Edna Staebler. In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook Food That Really Schmecks . Originally published in 1968, Food That Really Schmecks instantly became a classic, selling tens of thousands of copies. Interspersed with practical and memorable recipes are Staebler's stories and anecdotes about cooking, life with the Mennonites, family, and the Waterloo Region. Described by Edith Fowke as folklore literature, Staebler's cookbooks have earned her national acclaim. Back in print as part of Wilfrid Laurier University Press's Life Writing series, a series devoted celebrating life writing as both genre and critical practice, the updated edition of this groundbreaking book includes a foreword by award-winning author Wayson Choy and a new introduction by well-known food writer Rose Murray.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1968. 2nd printing. Full illustrated cloth binding. Clean, crisp, unmarked copy. 297pp, index. Dust jacket is moderately rubbed, now in a new mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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So much has been said in praise of this Canadian classic that I can hardly hope to improve upon it, or add anything original. But I can say that I loved it wholeheartedly - no pictures, but page after page of wonderfully tasty recipes and chatty, personable prose. The recipes don't call for any strange or exotic ingredients, but things that you'll probably already have in the pantry. I have lost count of the many things that I have made from this book, and all of them have been good. I love Edna Staebler's writing, and the sometimes vague amounts she gives in her recipes. Cooking is like that - you learn as you go. The recipes are simple, homey, comforting, delicious. If for nothing else, this is the book that first encouraged me, as a new bride, to try baking my own bread, and I have been making my own ever since. This is a warm, honest, lovely book that I am glad to have on my cookbook shelf, and I turn to it often. Read and enjoy!
