Wanda E. Brunstetter
N.Y. Times bestselling author
Simple, delicious recipes, plus stories about life in a Plain community in Sarasota, Florida makes Sherry's cookbook both interesting and unique.

Suzanne Woods Fisher
Bestselling author of the Lancaster County Secrets series
Sherry Gore's Taste of Pinecraft provides easy, delicious recipes for fellowship and fun, with an added bonus: an insider's delightful view of Amish and Mennonite life. Food, for the Plain People, doesn't just feed the body. It also nourishes the soul of family and community.

Kevin Williams
Editor/Creator of the syndicated column, The Amish Cook
Taste of Pinecraft is a charming compendium of flavorful recipes and interesting insights into one of the most unique plain settlements I've ever visited: Pinecraft, Florida. This tranquil enclave in a sleepy corner of Sarasota is the Sunshine State's only Amish community, a melting pot of plain, and Taste of Pinecraft is not only a great, comforting cookbook for anyone's collection, it's also a guide to Pinecraft. If you can't visit yourself, Taste of Pinecraft will take you there!

Erik Wesner
Author of Success Made Simple: An Inside Look At Why Amish Businesses Thrive
Sherry Gore has a finger on the pulse of the Florida Amish community. Sherry's Taste of Pinecraft shows that "Plain" cooking doesn't have to taste that way. And the Pinecraft Pauper is one of the most unique--and entertaining--Plain publications around.

Andrew Tait
Film Producer, BBC
Taste of Pinecraft is much more than a recipe book; its an invitation to join Sherry and her family for a meal at her table. The book is filled with stories from the extraordinary community and people of Pinecraft, and is marinated in warmth, humour and openness. Enjoy!

Keith Rathbun
Publisher, The Budget
Sherry Gore's cookbook feeds the body and the soul, serving family-style. The recipes are easy and certainly tasty, but the best ingredients in Taste of Pinecraft are the stories. Each is wonderfully told, with a pinch of Plain People frankness and a dash of down-home wit.

Kimberly Button
Author of The Disney Queue Line Survival Guidebook
Taste of Pinecraft is more than a cookbook - it's like making a meal with a good friend. The personal stories will make you feel as if you're a member of the Pinecraft community and the meals are good home cooking food that you can remember from family gatherings. Taste of Pinecraft is down-to-earth, but the book will make your heart and soul soar with happiness!

Barbara Cameron
Bestselling author of the Quilts of Lancaster County and Stitches in Time series
Sherry Gore's Taste of Pinecraft is such a unique cookbook filled with recipes for delicious Amish food and heartwarming stories of Amish life in Florida.

Amazon
5 star Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Taste of Pinecraft, October 6, 2011
By Lollipops "lollipops5" (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)  

TASTE OF PINECRAFT is a unique Amish cookbook, in that it isn't all cooking--it is also full of Amish history (particularly the Amish of Pinecraft history) and the fun folksy stories that friends would share around the dining room table or the front porch. The newsy tales are dated from different years in the 21st century, such as 2005, 2007, 2008, etc. and are full of community news and some humor. Some of them are laugh out loud funny.

Not only that but there are some cooking advice included, such as how to season a cast iron skillet, can size charts, fruit and vegetable equivalents, and other advice.

The recipes themselves include: Appetizers and Beverages, Breakfast, Breads and Rolls, Soups and Salads, Vegetables and Side Dishes, Meats and Meat Dishes, Seafood, Deserts, Cakes and Frostings, Pies, Cookies and Bars, Feeding the Multitudes, and This and That (which includes recipes for things such as pretzels, peanut butter, Caramel corn, yogurt, dressings, and other items.

TASTE OF PINECRAFT is a full service cookbook that you'll really want to sit down and read cover to cover. And you might even want to keep it handy when you're stirring the sauce so you can reread the stories.

The recipes themselves are great. I tried several out - such as chocolate chip cookies (they were great) and beans and ham (which was a little different than my usual recipe; spicier.) and broccoli soup (it was like mine, really good. Plus there are full color pictures included of some of the foods.

If you are looking for a new cookbook, then TASTE OF PINECRAFT is one that you'll definitely want to get. It is worth every penny, and then some. Also excellent for gifts.

Lynette Sowell
Award-winning author of To Catch a Falling Star
A Taste of Pinecraft takes readers and cooks alike on a delicious journey into the kitchens of Pinecraft. Not just about food, this volume paints a heartwarming portrait of Sarasota, Florida's haven for the Amish and Mennonites. 

Amazon Reader
Helen Havener
5.0 out of 5 stars Taste of PInecraft, October 9, 2011
By Helen E. Hevener "Helen hevener" 

 Taste of Pinecraft not only has the best recipes in the Amish world- but also has little antidotes and stories throughout the cookbook that will make it like no cookbook you have ever had before! I love and treasure my copy of Taste of Pinecraft - recipes that are easy to follow and some really pretty pictures thrown in with the stories and antidotes makes it the #1 cookbook and storybook in my household!

Debra Bearden
5 star Reader Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!!, May 27, 2011
By Debra Bearden "Amish Fan" (Adamsville, al USA) - See all my reviews
 
Taste of Pinecraft is a wonderful book. Not only a great cookbook it is full of wonderful stories. Sherry Gore has a God given gift for story telling.

Reader Review
Monique Woods
A regular recipe book has just recipes. This special book cannot be considered a "recipe" book. it is entertaining, heart-wrenching, comical and enlightening and well as educational. You can make a recipe and while you are waiting for it to cook or bake, you can read a story (or more) and the time goes by, faster. Before you you know it, you're ready to eat.

Reader Review
Kelly Pitt
October 21, 2011
Sherry has a hit a grand slam with this cookbook. I could not put it down. Inside the pages you will step into the lives of these precious Amish people. When you look through the recipes you will not know what to try out first! When Sherry describes food, you can almost taste what she is describing!

Cooking & Such
Review by Katie Troyer
Cooking & Such ~adventures in Plain Living

In my opinion this magazine is a collector's item. It has 52 pages and is loaded with beautiful pictures of food and recipes to go with the pictures. Or maybe the recipes came first and the pictures followed. But the magazine is more than just recipes and food, for the subtitle says "adventures in Plain Living". So there are other stories and articles scattered within it's covers. This is a coffee table magazine, one where you read bits and pieces and lay the magazine down and come back later for more browsing and reading. But if you are a cook you will also take this magazine with you into the kitchen and try out the recipes and enjoy the food. This is a magazine for everyone in the family.

Cooking & Such: Adventures in Plain Living
Reader Review
Name: Allyson Langworth
January 6, 2012

Book Title: Cooking & Such: Adventures in Plain Living
This is the most FANTASTIC magazine I have purchased and am so happy I am a subscriber!!! It is full of great recipes, excellent stories and STUNNING photos of your amazing cooking Sherry! Each recipe seems easily adaptable for bigger and smaller batches. I collect cookbooks but I rarely cook from any of them except for a Five Roses book printed in 1905!! I like my recipes simple, easy to follow and adaptable. All of which are found in Cooking & Such. For each recipe I have tried I have copied it out, as to not wreck the magazine while I attempt the recipes because this is a magazine that is displayed in my living room! Every person that comes over asks what it is and I tell them the best magazine I have ever spent my money on! I truly hope that others enjoy their copies as much as I have mine and I am ANXIOUSLY awaiting the next edition!!!! Allyson Ontario, Canada