PA Dutch Food Series

Join us for an exploration of local PA Dutch foods and their origins!
 

Thursday, Sept. 5 “The Dutch Among Us – Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes Today”

Food history author Tom Kelchner will discuss the history and regional nature of Pennsylvania Dutch dishes that families serve today. They include hog maw, Buweschenkel, Apies cake, milk pie, and fastnachts. This is not about “buggies and bonnets,” but the food history of the “Dutch” in Pennsylvania who never lived a plain lifestyle.
 

Thursday, Sept. 12 “The Story of the 1881 Cumberland Valley Cook and General Recipe Book”

Tom Kelchner, local food history author, will take the audience down a historical rabbit hole that begins in a Newville community cookbook that was reprinted in Kansas in 1881. It includes a cast of colorful local characters, a wave of Cumberland County residents immigrating to the West and the discovery of the oldest documented recipe for shoo fly pie. The presentation is based on Kelchner’s most recent book.
 

Tom Kelchner is a retired journalist, technical writer and blogger who has lived in Carlisle for nearly 35 years. He has a passionate interest in the everyday cooking and baking of many ethnic traditions, especially those found in Pennsylvania. He blogs about the “food and drink of everyday life” at PaFoodLife.com and the companion Facebook group PaFoodLife. He and his wife, Linda, are descended from Pennsylvania Dutch families. His from northern Pennsylvania, and hers from the Lehigh Valley.
 

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