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Food That Really Schmecks
Edna Staebler
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Description for Food That Really Schmecks
Paperback. Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. Interspersed with practical and memorable recipes, this book contains Staebler's stories and anecdotes about cooking, Mennonites, her family, and Waterloo Region. Num Pages: 360 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
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, 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, Mennonites, her family, and Waterloo Region. Described by Edith Fowke as folklore literature, Staebler's cookbooks have earned her national acclaim.
Including this long-anticipated reprint of Food That Really Schmecks in our Life Writing series recognizes the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9780889205215
SKU
V9780889205215
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99-15
About Edna Staebler
Edna Staebler who passed away in 2006 in her 101st year was an award-winning journalist and a regular contributor to Maclean's, Chatelaine, and many other magazines. She is the author of Cape Breton Harbour, Places I've Been and People I've Known and the Schmecks cookbook series. Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries, edited by Christl Verduyn, was published by Laurier Press ... Read more
Reviews for Food That Really Schmecks
One of the best-loved, quirkiest cookbooks ever published in Canada, Food That Really Schmecks is by Edna Staebler....Its charm hasnt stale-dated; the recipes are homey and local (long before urban sophisticates considered that a virtue), featuring such timeless dishes as Schnippled Bean Salad and Shoo-fly Pie. As much a snapshot of a way of life as a book of recipes, ... Read more