ELKHART, Ind. — In the spring of 1942, as World War II was intensifying, some American Mennonites were mobilizing to confront a growing challenge on the home front: the training of ministers and other church workers. It was a domestic problem with direct connections to the war.
Mennonite men can cook, too. There’s a cookbook that says so. Goshen, Ind., resident Willard Roth has compiled his favorite recipes and gathered his guy friends to add to the collection. The result is a glossy, 300-plus-page book — Mennonite Men Can Cook, Too, published by Good Books — that can hold its own not only in the kitchen but as a coffee table conversation starter.