Jessica McKague is assistant curator at Steinbach’s Mennonite Heritage Village Museum where the exhibit, Mennonite Food: Tastes in Transition, is on display until early 2016.

Steinbach museum reveals a global recipe swap

A new exhibit at Steinbach’s Mennonite Heritage Village Museum explores the impact of migration and other influences on Mennonite food

Why do Mennonites eat watermelon and roll’kuaka? Where’d their recipe for varenikje come from? And what’s up with all that farmers’ sausage, anyways? A new food history exhibit at the Mennonite Heritage Village Museum in Steinbach answers those questions and more. Typical Mennonite foods like kielke (egg noodles, schmauntfat (white cream gravy) and/or pereschtje (meat-filled

Hamm Mennonite Housebarn Now A Museum

The village of Neubergthal, in which the former Hamm Housebarn sits, is a National Historic Site, recognized for the impressive number of surviving traditional- style “housebarns” that characterized almost all early Mennonite street villages in Manitoba. This vintage house was built by Bernhard and Helena Hamm in 1901. Their daughter, Margaret, and her husband Abram


Thoughts On Easter – for Apr. 21, 2011

Some of the stems of the little plants looked hairy when I brought several pots up from the basement. It is called a resurrection plant and was given to me several years ago by a friend. She also gave me some instructions on how to look after the plants after enjoying the flowers. In fall

Turkey entrepreneur dies at 76

Milo Shantz, who began with 500 turkey poults and developed Hybrid Turkeys into one of four companies that dominated global markets, died of cancer Jan. 6 at age 76. Hybrid Turkeys of Kitchener, Ont., is now one of two global turkey-breeding companies, each with half of the market. After Shantz and his brother, Ross, sold