Simply Delicious Amish Cooking: Recipes and Stories from the Amish of Sarasota, Florida
About this ebook
Unlike any other Plain community in the world, this village is a virtual melting pot of Amish and Mennonites from around the world, intermingled with people like former editor-in-chief of Cooking & Such Magazine and author Sherry Gore’s family who live there year-round.
Simply Delicious Amish Cooking features hundreds of easy-to-prepare recipes and 16 full-color photographs and black-and-white photographs throughout.
In this cookbook, you’ll discover traditional favorites such as:
- Sweet Potato Sweet Mash,
- Mrs. Byler’s Glazed Donuts,
- Fried Alligator Nuggets,
- Grilled Lime Fish Fillets,
- Strawberry Mango Smoothies and more!
Interspersed with the recipes are true-life stories about births, engagements, weddings, deaths, funerals, celebrations, wildlife encounters and accidents told through years of Sherry’s Letters from Home column published in The Budget, the Amish newspaper.
Simply Delicious Amish Cooking offers readers a faith-based, family-focused perspective of the simple way of life of the Plain People. It is truly a breath of fresh air from Sarasota, Florida.
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About the author
Sherry Gore is former editor-in-chief of Cooking & Such magazine, co-author of The Pinecraft Pie Shop novel series, author of The Plain Choice, and the cookbooks Simply Delicious Amish Cooking and Me, Myself, and Pie. The National Geographic Channel featured Sherry prominently in their documentary series, Amish: Out of Order. Her culinary adventures have been highlighted on news and travel shows worldwide, including NBC Daytime, the Today Show, Ukraine’s Heads and Tails, and more. She is a year-round resident of Sarasota, Florida, the vacation paradise of the Plain People. When not spending time with her family, she enjoys fishing, riding her bike, sampling local fare, and meeting Amish snowbirds and tourists from around the world.
