Food That Really Schmecks: Mennonite Country Cooking by Edna Staebler (1st Edition) 1968

Condition:   Very Good +  Best Seller Has Dust Jacket cover.  Book has a local bookseller stamp on the front free-endpaper.  The text is in like-new condition.  Appears as unread. No markings of any kind.  Dust Jacket has a minor cut at the upper edge, otherwise no edgewear. Weight: 660 g

Very Good - Printed hardcover -Dust jacket not applicable.  The binding is tight.  The copy is crisp and clean - A small light colour stain on the fore-edge. Minor corner edgewear.  Weight: 644 g

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.  Interspersed with practical and memorable recipes are Staebler's stories and anecdotes about cooking, Mennonites, her family, and Waterloo Region.

Edna Staebler was an award-winning literary journalist and author of 21 books.  Her cookbooks are full of wonderful descriptions, colourful anecdotes and flavourful dialect, as we peek into the cooking pots of her friends and family. Staebler was also among the very first cookbook authors to celebrate regional cooking and, as a result, was primarily responsible for bringing the Waterloo region, with its good food and drink, to the attention of the rest of Canada.