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Summary:

"Mennonites are often associated with food, both by outsiders and by Mennonites themselves. Eating in abundance, eating together, preserving food, and preparing so-called traditional foods are just some of the connections mentioned in cookbooks, food advertising, memoirs, and everyday food talk. Yet since Mennonites are found around the world--from Europe to Canada to Mexico, from Paraguay to India to the Democratic Republic of the Congo--what can it mean to eat like one? In Eating Like a Mennonite Marlene Epp finds that the answer depends on the eater: on their ancestral history, current home, gender, socio-economic position, family traditions, and personal tastes. Originating in central Europe in the sixteenth century, Mennonites migrated around the world even as their religious teachings historically emphasized their separateness from others. The idea of Mennonite food became a way of maintaining community identity, even as unfamiliar environments obliged Mennonites to borrow and learn from their neighbours. Looking at Mennonites past and present, Epp shows that foodstuffs (cuisine) and foodways (practices) depend on historical and cultural context. She explores how diets have evolved as a result of migration, settlement, and mission; how food and gender identities relate to both power and fear; how cookbooks and recipes are full of social meaning; how experiences and memories of food scarcity shape identity; and how food is an expression of religious beliefs--as a symbol, in ritual, and in acts of charity. From zwieback to tamales and from sauerkraut to spring rolls, Eating Like a Mennonite reveals food as a complex ingredient in ethnic, religious, and personal identities, with the ability to create both bonds and boundaries between people."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Eating Encounters: Mennonites Move across Time and Place
• Mennonite Women Can Cook: Gendered Notions of Foodways
• Recipes and Beyond: The Cookbook Phenomenon
• Food Trauma: Memories of Hunger and Scarcity
• Breaking and Baking Bread Together: Food and Religious Practice.

Author/Creator:

Epp, Marlene, 1958- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Eating like a mennonite: food and community across borders [by Epp, M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Eating like a mennonite [by Epp, M.] (Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023 — ISBN 0228018935; ISBN 9780228018933)

Subjects:

Food — Religious aspects — Mennonites

Food habits — Religious aspects — Mennonites

Food — Social aspects

Mennonite cooking

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

BX8128.F66 E67 2023eb

ISBNs:

9780228019510 (electronic book)
0228019516 (electronic book)
9780228019503 (electronic book)
0228019508 (electronic book)
9780228018933 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780228018940 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1374581496

Other Control Numbers:

EBC30667964 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305244781