From the Back Cover
Known for its piercing mountain ranges, its soft hilly pastures, and its Civil War secrets, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is also home to thousands of Mennonites.
Their foods are as lush and as whole as the land on which it is grown and prepared.
Here are hundreds of those uncommonly tasty recipes, gathered from a comforting food tradition, rooted in the old South. Included are color photographs of the community and its people, and historic sketches of many of the Valley's small towns.
About the Author
Visiting relatives in the Shenandoah Valley--and eating at their bountifully filled tables--has been a favorite event for Phyllis Pellman Good for as long as she can remember.
She has been part of many cookbooks, authoring The Best of Amish Cooking and The Festival Cookbook, and co-authoring Recipes from Central Market, The Best of Mennonite Fellowship Meals, From Amish and Mennonite Kitchens, and Favorite Recipes with Herbs.
Good is curator of The People's Place Quilt Museum, for which she curated an exhibit having to do with Virginia Mennonites--Quilts from Two Valleys: Amish Quilts from the Big Valley, Mennonite Quilts from the Shenandoah Valley. She is author of a book by the same title.
Good and her husband, Merle, live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and are co-directors of The People's Place, a heritage interpretation center in the Lancaster County village of Intercourse, PA.
Kate Good lived in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley for three school years while she was a student at Eastern Mennonite University. A recent graduate of EMU, she has worked as a newspaper reporter for the Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and as a writer/editor for Pacifica Radio Network in Washington, D.C.
She is a co-author of the book Amish Cooking for Kids,on which she collaborated with her sister, Rebecca, and mother, Phyllis. She researched and wrote the profiles of the Shenandoah Valley towns in this cookbook.
