Amish Food

If you’re hungry in Holmes County, you could do a lot worse than Boyd & Wurthmann. This restaurant, located in “downtown” Berlin, is a local institution, serving up sandwiches and hearty meals for 70+ years. I visited in December, again with my friend Rich Stevick. It’s a circa-1940s restaurant and it kind of has that atmosphere […]

Continue Reading A Visit to Boyd & Wurthmann Restaurant – Berlin, Ohio (8 Photos)

As a people who live close to animals and nature, the Amish still do something that most Americans left behind long ago – that is, butchering and processing their own meat. This might make some us think “yuck”. But it’s the way of things when you’re on Amish farms. Amish have days dedicated to the […]

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When I stay at John and Rachel’s* home in Lancaster County, one of my morning tasks is to go on a milk run. This doesn’t mean running down to the store but rather to the closest source possible. And in this part of the world, that means another Amish farm. Here’s the jar I used […]

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We’re officially into winter. And this is the time of year that families are cracking into those canned items they worked hard to prepare when the weather was warmer and fresh fruit and veggies were plentiful. On my recent Amish trip I had the good fortune to bring back a Christmas basket of canned goods […]

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We’ve got a winner of The Essential Amish Cookbook following the Q-and-A giveaway with author Lovina Eicher. But first, here are 3 of Lovina’s recipes for you – a main dish, a salad, and something sweet. Thanks to Herald Press for letting us reprint them here. 3 Recipes from The Essential Amish Cookbook Want to test-drive […]

Continue Reading Lovina Eicher’s Essential Amish Cookbook Winner (Plus 3 Recipes)

Lovina Eicher answers your questions in today’s post. Lovina is the author of The Essential Amish Cookbook and the Lovina’s Amish Kitchen column. To enter to win a copy of The Essential Amish Cookbook, just leave a comment on this post. I’ll draw a random winner and post it next week. Lovina apologizes for not […]

Continue Reading Lovina Eicher Answers Your Questions (Essential Amish Cookbook Giveaway)

Would you like to eat a home-cooked meal in an Amish home? If you don’t yet have Amish friends who’ll feed you, you can always track down a home business providing meals for the public. Last year we heard about two such places, in Lancaster County and NE Indiana. Today, a look at another, in […]

Continue Reading Enjoy A Meal In A New York Amish Home (+7 Recipes)

Lovina Eicher is an Amish mother of eight and author of the Lovina’s Amish Kitchen column (and formerly the Amish Cook column). I’m working on a Q-and-A for Lovina about her latest cookbook, The Essential Amish Cookbook, to publish here on the site. Do you have anything that I should ask Lovina? If so, share […]

Continue Reading The Essential Amish Cookbook: Your Question Suggestions For Lovina

For being the fourth-largest Amish settlement, the community in Geauga County, Ohio, often seems to go overlooked. That is probably because of its nearness to Holmes County, a popular tourist destination. But this is a large settlement approaching 20,000 Amish in size, so it gets some tourist visitors, and therefore has some attractions, like food. […]

Continue Reading Mary Yoder’s Amish Kitchen (Middlefied, OH)

Atlas Obscura gives us a brief background of this dish, served by Amish in Pennsylvania at funerals: Death and raisins share one essential feature: neither belongs to any one season. Eighteenth-century Amish and old-order Mennonites of Pennsylvania were no strangers to the harsh realities of sudden loss, but amidst tragedy, raisins were there. The preserved […]

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