The Amish Cook
Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family
Author – Elizabeth Coblentz with Kevin Williams
Publisher – Ten Speed Press
Copyright – 2002
ISBN – 1-58008-214-9
Hardback – 182 Pages
Genre – Cookbook
Elizabeth Coblentz is an Old Order Amish Grandmother who has eight children and thirty three grandchildren. She writes a weekly column for a local Amish newspaper, The Budget for more than forty years. Coblentz lives with no electricity or plumbing and travels by horse and buggy which is all according to her Amish ways. Bernard Clayton, the author of The Breads of France, writes; “I don’t deny that I married into a family with an Old Order kinship to get recipes for my wife’s grandmother’s smoked sausage links and fried cornmeal mush, her raisin pie and yummasetti. These recipes and so much more are beautifully told by Elizabeth Coblentz, who writes with warm understanding of down-home country cooking and with respect and dignity about her life as an Amish Woman.”
Kevin Williams was first introduced to the Amish while writing a high school research paper and his article was published. He has been editing The Amish Cook for ten years which is a syndicated newspaper in more than one hundred newspapers across the country.
The Amish Cook, Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family offers a rare glimpse of an extremely private society. The recipes in the book are in charming collections of Coblentz family fairy tales, gardening tips, Amish history and Coblentz famous newspaper publications. It is an absolute treasure to have in my kitchen.
Book Review
C.S. Scott
Ratings – 10 Stars – **********
