Just Plain Wrong

This week is part 2 of our cookbook series! We chat with Amy Harris-Aber, about Community Cookbooks - informally published cookbooks often associated with families, camps, or churches. We chat about Amy's research on Mennonite cookbooks, discuss our fave recipes and cookbooks, and much much more. 

• Amy's website
• Amy's article on Russian Mennonite Community Cookbooks

Cookbooks / articles / books mentioned: 

• Feminist Rhetorical Practices – Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch
• Goessel Centennial Cook Book
• Rosie Grant - Gravestone Recipes (book), ghostly.archive (Insta account) 
• Tasteful Domesticity – Sarah Walden
• Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories – Ann Bower
• Melting Pot of Mennonite Cookery 
• History of Cookbooks - Henry Notiker
• Claiming a Piece of Tradition: Community Discourse in Russian Claiming a Piece of Tradition: Community Discourse in Russian Mennonite Community Cookbooks by Amy Harris-Aber
• Erin’s -  Memories and Recipes from the family of Jesse & Anna Shetler 
•  Abby’s - Wilderness Wind cookbook, 2nd edition
• Tillie’s - From the Kitchens of CMC (Columbus Mennonite Church)

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“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians draft published Mennonite cookbooks. We chat cooking blogs, favorite recipes, and much much more. 

Draft picks (stop reading if you don't want spoilers!): 

1. Erin - Simply in Season
2. Abby - More with Less
3. Tillie - Extending the Table
4. Tillie - Mennonite Community Cookbook
5. Abby - There’s always room at the table - Kaleb Wyse
6. Erin - Peppernuts Plain and Fancy
7. Erin - The Daily Feast - The Graber Family
8. Abby - The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasure of Traditional Food One Recipe at a time by Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger, 2010
9. Tillie - Food that Really Schmecks: Mennonite Country Cooking

Honorable Mentions

• Menno-Night Caps, Sherri Klassen
• Me, Myself, and Pie: Amish Recipes. Sherry Gore
• Melting Pot of Mennonite Cookery: 1874-1974, Edna Ramsayer Kaufman 
• Homage: recipes and stories from an Amish soul food kitchen, Chris Scott 

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“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians chat with Karen Johnson-Weiner about her book, The Lives of Amish Women. The book captures the diversity of the experiences of Amish women, with Johnson-Weiner's research relying heavily on correspondence and interviews with members of Amish communities. We chat about her research, her friendships with Amish women, why there hasn't been much research published on Amish women and much more! We really enjoyed The Lives of Amish Women and recommend you add it to your reading lists if this is a subject that interests you.

Note: The audio for this episode is more "echo-y" than usual due to Karen needing to record in an unexpected location (a stairwell!).

Thank you to Johns Hopkins University Press for providing us with review copies of the book. 

Links:
Lives of Amish Women
Karen Johnson-Weiner's website

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“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians chat about the movie "Holy Matrimony," a 1994 comedy movie starring Patricia Arquette and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In the movie, Patricia Arquette's character, Havanna, is unknowingly dragged into a Hutterite colony by her boyfriend Peter who she is forced to marry, and then after Peter dies in a car accident days later, she must marry Zeke, Peter's 12-year old brother per the rules of the colony. If you think that's weird, just wait til you hear us break down the rest of the plot!

We do a very detailed plot recap, and chat Hutterites (who, for the record, do not believe in Levirite marriage), state and county fairs, and what on earth this movie was trying to do. 

You can find Holy Matrimony streaming on YouTube. 

We also reference the podcast How Did This Get Made? that does an episode on Holy Matrimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQbY4byIUo (or you can find wherever you get your podcasts). 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, we chat with Eric Bradley, our friend, colleague, and the new Head Librarian of the Mennonite Historical Library (MHL). We chat primarily about genealogy and genealogy research, but also touch on MHL resources, Eric's faith journey, and much more.

Some of the genealogy resources mentioned in this episode: 

• Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association https://www.saga-omii.org/
• Grandma Online: https://grandmaonline.org/gmol-7/login.asp
• Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/en/united-states/

Mennonite Historical Library website: https://www.goshen.edu/mhl/ 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians draft poets! Specifically, Mennonite poets, or poets we make the case are close enough to Mennonite to count as Mennonite poets. We chat about the history of Mennonite poetry, share the bios and snippets from our favorite poems, and chat about our own poetry phases - including Abby doing a special reading of a poem she wrote as a tween, Snowflake, Snowflake. 

Draft picks: 
1. Patrick Friesen, "The Moon in the Streets" (Tillie)
2. Kate Baer, "Life a Wife" (Abby)
3. Julia Kasdorf, "The Mennonites" (Erin)
4. Carrie Newcomer, "I Believe" (Erin)
5. Jean Jantzen, "Wild Grapes" (Abby)
6. Jeff Gundy, "The Cookie Poem" and "How to Write the New Mennonite Poem" (Tillie)
7. Yorifumi Yaguchi, "Gravestones" (Tillie)
8. David Wright, "A New Mennonite Replies to Julia Kasdorf" (Abby)
9. Ann Hostetler, "Iconoclast", and also editor of A Capella, an anthology of Mennonite poetry

Honorable mentions (we cut this portion of the podcast for time, but want to still give these poets a shout out!)
- Jesse Nathan (Erin)
- Daniel Shank-Cruz (Tillie)
- Dennis Hoffman (Tillie)

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“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians chat about Carlos Whittaker's book Reconnected, a memoir about giving up technology and living with Amish for several weeks. We chat about the early days of cell phones, Carlos' experience with the Amish, which bits of his advice we liked, and much more. 

Carlos Whittaker is a christian social media influencer, speaker, author, and podcaster, who promotes ideas related to faith, politics, mental health and well being, and dialoguing with those that disagree with us. You can find him @loswhit, and his book, Reconnected, wherever you like to get your books. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week the MennoBrarians chat about the TV show Only in America, in which host Larry the Cable Guy visits different parts of the United States to learn about different cultures.  We cover episode 18 of season 1, "Larry is Amish" in which Larry visits Milwaukee, WI, Amish Country, and the Houston Art Car parade. It turns out, Larry doesn't actually visit the Amish, he visits an Old Order River Brethren that makes sauerkraut. We chat cabbage, Brethren, redneck jokes, and much much more. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the Mennobrarians are back with a snake draft! In this snake draft, we choose our favorite Christian media we watched, read, or listened to as kids. 

Stop reading here if you want our draft picks to be a surprise! 

Final draft board: 

Round 1 

1. Abby - I Can Make Peace: Stories and Songs for Children
2. Erin - VeggieTales
3. Tillie - The New Picture Book of Saints by Rev. Lawrence Lovasik https://archive.org/details/picturebookofsai0000unse 

Round 2

1. Tillie - Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
2. Erin - Kids Praise 2-4 by Psalty the Singing Songbook
3. Abby - The entire Chronicles of Narnia  

Round 3

1. Abby - Coals of Fire, Elizabeth Hershberger Bauman, 1954
2. Erin - With magazine, Herald Press
3. Tillie - The Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle

Round 4

1. Tillie - Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
2. Erin - The Buttercream Gang (movie), 1992 (found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ukAC7eUgGnE?si=v7arTexM_NYKj1pi)
3. Abby - The Great Shalom by Peter J. Dyck 1990

Honorable Mentions

• Tillie - Lord of the Rings (not really Christian)
• Erin - Magee and Me - Twister and Shout
• Abby - Piercing the Darkness by Frank E. Peretti

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians chat with JB Miller about Pinecraft, growing up gay in the Conservative Mennnonite Church, orange Jello, the perfect tourist day in Sarasota, and much much more. JB is a life long Mennonite, who grew up in a variety of Conservative Mennonite denominations, and experienced life in the Pinecraft area as both a child and as an adult. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod  or buying merch at TeePublic

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams.