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AmishCookTV: A Tour Through Amish Country....

amishschool.jpgWant to see the inside of an Amish school-house like this one? Take advantage of the rare opportunity and subscribe to AmishCookTV! See details on how to subscribe below:


Experimental:  Anyone that  now signs up for AmishCookTV will receive a free DVD copy of the award-winning hour-long documentary "Inside The Swartzentruber Sect", the most conservative and misunderstood group of Amish. The DVD will arrive within 2 weeks by snail mail.  For information about AmishCookTV and how to subscribe, read on...The free DVD  is something I am currently experimenting with offering as a sign-up gift. 


Videos are a popular part of this site and allow people to "experience" aspects of Amish culture in a way words and still pictures can't capture. We have an exciting package of educational, insightful, and hopefully fun "video tours" available this year (August 2009 - June 2010). Amish and Mennonites are generally familiar with my work, and they trust me to present their environment in an educational and respectful way.  Because of this, I’m often given photographic access to areas that many other journalists don’t get.  Most of the videos are 5 – 7 minutes in length, so they’re pretty "watchable", although some may be a bit longer. Read more

Cookbooks

Check out available cookbooks by clicking the bookstore tab above.

<Yawn> Here's Another Story About Love Stories...

A month or so ago a major news outlet in the US ran a story about the increasing popularity of "Amish romance" novels...Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, etc.  Well, the rest of the media has come to the topic like pigs to a feeding trough.  So many large newspapers just lack creativity/originality in their reporting.  Soooo, after every American newspaper did their own story about these types of romance novels, now Canada's second largest newspaper had to jump on the bandwagon.  Nothing really new is being said, but if you want to read, click here....

Sheet Stuff.....

The comforters at hotels are gross, but there is something nice about sleeping on clean sheets nightly.  We don't change them that often at home.  But there is something so relaxing about sliding into crisp, clean, cool sheets.  So my question, and maybe this is more of a science question:  why are the sheets "cool" when you get into a bed with freshly laundered sheets?  Why don't the same sheets have that "cool" feeling after they've been on the bed a week?  I can make the bed after I get up in the morning and return 12 hours later at bed time and the sheets, if they have been on my bed a week, don't have that same "cool" feeling that they do if they are newly laundered.  Anyone have any ideas as to why this is?  When I was a freshman in college, my roommate was lucky to change his sheets once every two months, which I thought was kind of gross and made our tiny cinderblock closet-sized room smell. I changed mine much more often than that.  So I put up a poll today to try to see what the "normal range" or consensus is on often sheets should be changed?

How Often To You Change Your Bed Sheets?

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