Well – I can’t believe that I am actually excited about a cookbook but there you go. I’m sure it has more to do with my love of eating. Our MAC cookbooks came out the other day and today I decided to make Summer Borcht – the single best thing about Mennonite food I have found so far. I improvised a bit (added a little pepper, salt, kept the skins on the potatos, used deer sausage, some vinegar). It turned out REALLY good. I know this because I had some actual Mennonites come over and try it (well, descendants of Mennonites). It occurs to me that a Christian Cookbook makes sense…so much of our symbolic celebratory life revolves around meals (Lord’s Supper, Passover etc.). I’m glad we put one together.

In other news I went to hear DD and BF singing as part of the Prairie Singers presentation entiitled Songs of Lent & Liberation. It was quite incredible. The acoustics in the Emmanuel Mennonite Church are spectacular. I hope they sell (or give away – HINT) a recording of the event. It started with the old Greek Kyrie Eleison and worked its way through to the end with some great Negro Spirituals and a South African reconciliation song.