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Mennonite cookbook celebrates family dinners, around the globe

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Channel: LancasterOnline · 2012 · Howto & Style

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If you are what you eat, the women of the Graber family are worldly, adventuresome, creative and traditional.

The women — matriarch Esther Rose Graber, her five daughters and daughter-in-law — wrote "The Everyday Feast" cookbook, which Good Books of Intercourse published this month.

It's a collection of recipes Graber gathered over the years reflecting husband Ronald Graber's childhood in India and the family's years in Puerto Rico, where he worked as a surgeon at a Mennonite hospital.

"We intended to go for five years but we stayed," Esther Graber, 81, said Thursday during a stop on her cookbook tour at The Good Cooking Store in Intercourse with twins Ann Graber Miller and Sibyl Graber Gerig.

Graber lives part of the year in Puerto Rico and part in Elkhart, Ind.

The recipes also reflect the various places around the world their children lived or spent time, such as Bulgaria, Cambodia, China and Mexico. And the 252-page book lets the reader learn a bit about this artistic family — Graber has been a book illustrator, Miller is an interior designer and painter and Gerig also is an illustrator — and the role food plays for the family beyond merely providing sustenance.

Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/628604_Mennonite-cookbook-celebrates-family-dinners--around-the-globe.html

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