Phyllis Good

Mennonite Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley Phyllis Good

    
     Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is home to thousands of Mennonites. Here are hundreds of their recipes, as lush and as whole as the land on which they're grown and prepared. Rooted in the food traditions of the old South.

     
     Known for its piercing mountain ranges, its soft hilly pastures, and its Civil War secrets, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is also the home of thousands of Mennonites. Their foods are as lush and as whole as the land on which they are grown and prepared. Here are hundreds of those uncommonly tasty recipes, gathered from a comforting food tradition, rooted in the old South. Includes color photographs of the community and its people, and historic sketches of many of the Valley's small towns.