TAMAR MYERS: Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries (With Recipes)

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[genefromjersey]

The Informed Citizen Monday, March 14, 2005

TAMAR MYERS :

Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries

(With Recipes)

I've just finished reading ASSAULT and PEPPER,the latest Tamar Myers ouvre. If you've ever read anything by Ms Myers,you'll understand why I'm still laughing.

Set in the Mennonite/Amish town of Hernia,Pennsylvania,the Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries feature the incomparable Magdalena Yodor,proprietor of the Penn Dutch Inn (where well-heeled guests pay extra for the privilege of doing household and farm chores.It's called "immersion".)

In between the chapters of these rollicking murder mysteries,one will find apparently authentic Pennsylvania Dutch recipes-usually inserted with some passing reference to the previous chapter.

Rather than describe the plot-which needs to be read from line one to be fully appreciated,I will list a menu of Tamar Myers' titles. (For best results,read the books in order.)

Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth
Parsley,Sage,Rosemary & Crime
No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk
Just Plain Pickled to Death
Between a Wok and a Hard Place
Play it Again,Spam
The Hand the Rocks the Ladle
The Crepes of Wrath
Gruel and Unusual Punishment
Custard's Last Stand
Thou Shalt not Grill
Assault and Pepper

BON APPETIT !!

[Mamzelle]

Used to love Penn Dutch food until I went locarb. Their food is the starchiest around--and you can tell by checking out the ladies' midsections. You can't say that they're chunky because they're sedentary--they work hard! Carbs at work.