Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.

Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.

Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.

Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.

Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.

Index to the articles published by Mennonite Family History

This issue contains the following articles and [surnames]: Mast Family European Heritage Tour by Diana Mast White [Mast]; Descendants of Swiss Settlers by Joseph H. Smith; Ancestral Families of Sarah Flohr (1880-1963) Married to Norman Arthur Lind (1881-1968), Part IV: Sell, Shell, Brunner, Nold, Ziegler, Bough, and Crumpbacher by Hope Kauffman Lind [Sell, Shell, Brunner, Nold, Ziegler, Bough, Crumpbacher]; Who Was the Wife of Daniel Flohr (1790-1850)? Addendum to "Ancestral Families of Sarah Flohr (1880-1963) Married to Norman Arthur Lind (1881-1968), Parts I and II by Hope Kauffman Lind [Flohr, Rummel, Sounder]; Anabaptist Records Just Found in German Archives by Friedrich Wollmershauser [Bachmann, Wagner, Krehbuhl, Adam, Handschuh, Detweyler, Hirtzler, Maurer, Schneider, Ruth, Wanner, Rohrer, Habich, Meyer, Reinhard, Krauther, Ambsler, Hackmann, Holl, Wenger, Mast, Hostetter, Landas]; Blessed With Eight Generations - Ancestor Fan Chart of Jennifer Ellen Miller [Miller, Hostetler, Schlabach, Martin]; The Hubers from Hausen, Switzerland, to Pennsylvania by Lois Ann Mast [Huber]; Departure Ports of Our Ancestors: Rotterdam by Lois Ann Mast; Children of Bishop Jacob Mast and Magdalena Hooley: David Mast (1770-1849)—Blouse Davy, Innkeeper by Dot (Mast) Moss [Mast, Kurtz]; Four Marriages Between the Bartel, Epp, Franz, Isaac, and Wall Families by Thomas B. Mierau [Bartel, Epp, Isaac, Franz, Wall]; The Groningen Old Flemish Society of Mennonites in Poland, Prussia, and Russia by John D. Richert with contributions from Rodney D. Ratzlaff [Ratzlaff, Wedel, Schmidt, Unruh, Richert, Jantz, Sparling, Voth, Pankratz, Harms, Dirks].

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.