Contributor: Marlene Epp Marlene Epp is professor emeritus of history at Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo.

"This book is not only relevant to discussions of Mennonite identity but also deserves a place of significance within the broader scholarship on immigration, cultural transformation, and food within the humanities and social sciences. Epp’s research is thorough and exemplary; photos, recipes, and other illustrations enrich the book’s narrative. I highly recommend this book for both lay readers and academics." University of Toronto Quarterly --- "Eating Like a Mennonite gives scholars, students, and general readers a view into the foodways of a global, diasporic group unlike any other." Gastronomica --- "Eating Like a Mennonite is a highly accessible contribution to the field that speaks to a general readership. The book makes a persuasive case for the value of food studies as a means of understanding the cultural and social life of any community and it is a welcome and important addition to the growing literature on food and identity." Canadian Food Studies --- "Eating Like a Mennonite reveals important connections between ethnoreligious identity and immigration, colonization, gender, and memory. Epp strives to keep it accessible to a general audience by interjecting her own experiences [and] underscore the material nature of a book in which food is central." American Historical Review --- “While food studies is an increasingly popular field of research, there remains a continued tendency to neglect domestic food production. Eating Like a Mennonite makes a major contribution by examining these intimate and quotidian acts of nourishment. Moreover, it is a delight to read, and made me hungry for the foods of my childhood.” Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg --- “Written in lively prose, Eating Like a Mennonite provides specific angles of entry into the broader topic of Mennonite self-identity and culture in a global context. Marlene Epp takes care to explore the foodways of Mennonites in such different regions of the world as Eastern Europe, India, China, Paraguay, Pennsylvania and Waterloo, Ontario. With each example, she traces foods prepared and packed for the journey, and how they come to represent comfort amidst discomfort, and familiarity in unfamiliar circumstances.” Nathalie Cooke, McGill University