That the Nightingale Return: Memoir of the Polish Resistance, the Warsaw Uprising and German P.O.W. Camps

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On August 1, 1944, Leokadia Rowinski and fellow members of the Polish Resistance movement saw the culmination of their five years of training-the Warsaw Uprising. Six weeks later, she celebrated her twenty-first birthday. As a member of the Resistance, Rowinski witnessed firsthand the devastation that World War II brought to Poland. She provided communication services for the Resistance, delivering orders to Resistance leaders. She was captured after the Uprising and spent six months in P.O.W. camps before being liberated.

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Confessions of a jilted lover

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Pretense, Excuses, Reality

Helpful but biased and incomplete

Confused philosopher who thought he could teach the world

Lives in the Shadow With J. Krishnamurti
Radha Rajagopal Sloss
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This is not only the story of one person. It is the story of the relationships of J. Krishnamurti and people closely involved with him, especially Rosalind Williams Rajagopal and D. Rajagopal, my mother and father, and of the consequences of this involvement on their lives. Recently there have been biographies and a biographical film on Krishnamurti that have left areas, and a large span of years, in mysterious darkness. It is not in the interest of historical integrity, especially where such a personality is concerned, that there be these areas of obscurity.

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Confessions of a jilted lover.......2007-08-27

Radha Sloss wrote this book primarily to expose Krishnamurti's affair with her Mother, Rosalind Rajagopal, therefore if someone is looking to learn more about K's life, this book will not provide him/her with much insight. It is obvious that Radha is basically a spokesperson for her Mother and her attitude towards Krishnamurti, though he was like a Father to her, turns into contempt and resentment as the affair begins to fall apart. Rosalind's letter exchange with K. is not available for legal reasons and though it seems conceivable that they did have an intimate and affectionate relationship that lasted for many years, it also becomes quite obvious that Rosalind was extremely jealous, possessive and obsessed with K. and this book served her as a way to vindicate her pain after the affair ended. It's sad that such private matters had to be exposed, especially for K., who was already dead when the book was published and could not respond to any of the allegations. Krishnamurti himself never claimed he was chaste; he just claimed his private life wasn't important. His intimate relationship with Rosalind based on mutual love and friendship shows no contradiction or hypocrisy in his teachings. It is important to understand that it wasn't really an affair, since Rosalind and Raja never had a true marriage (right after Rosalind gets pregnant Raja in fact announces to her that there is no need to live as man and wife anymore, and many passages refer to Raja's tacit consent to this romantic relationship between his wife and K.). Raja's and Rosalind's marriage seemed more of an arrangement based on a profound bond of friendship, friendship that had indeed existed between all three of them (K., Raja and Rosalind) for many years before any romantic bonds were established.
I read the book in hopes of learning more about who K. was, but felt a bit disgusted with the petty details of personal conflicts which Radha was trying to settle in the public eye.

REALITY CHECK.......2007-07-27

I just finished this book in July 2007.I had read most of K's books by the early 1980's and had developed a certian affinity with his way of looking at life in its complexity and complete nakedness.I think K expressed alot of insights into the human condition in ways that knowone else quite has.
He really knew how to take the paint down to the metal as it where and get you to look at things objectively through the process of elimination and sincerity.
That said I also think any idea that humanity could come to live in the mental and spiritual framework he portrayed was completely naive on his part.Paradoxically I believe in turn that made him feel somewhat superior to others when they challenged him or couldn't grasp his words.
I think this book portrays all of that very well and the fact that not only could humanity not live this out but ultimately neither could K.
Much like the greek philosophers I believe he contradicted himself in his own idealism and really didn't understand the true nature of human selfishness including some of his own.
I don't believe Radha was being vindictive by writing this book and I think she really loved K dearly and struggled with these contradictions in K's life herself for many years.
There is no doubt that she takes a few little diggs at K throughout the book but she also portrays the beauty and complexity of the life her family had with him and the overall picture she paints I believe is is quite honest,heart felt,true and clear.
The book also gives some very clear detailed insights about K's up bringing from childhood on that are quite fascinating psychologically.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" which please believe me I am not trying to do here but as much as I appreciate K in certian ways I still feel he was a bit of a prima donna and lived a very cush,pampered and spoiled life.The funny thing to me is that I had always intuitively sensed this since long ago and this book very much confirms these thoughts.
As insightful and perceptive as K was I think in the end he was as human, frail and fractured in his own way as all the rest of us and so may God Bless Krishnamurti and rest his soul.And as K always use to ask what is love? and as the good book says.

4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love seeketh not itself, is not puffed up,

5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Pretense, Excuses, Reality.......2006-05-13

The first book of K's I ever read was in the Sixties, when I was still a teenager; the last was in my late 40s, as I prepared to enter a doctoral program in philosophy. I read the Sloss book at about the time I was in contact with the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, which I was planning to visit. I was struck by how various people who had known K aped his manner of writing and speaking; it was both pathetic and humorous at the same time. This was one indication to me that not all was as advertised in the realm of the Enlightened.

So, what did I think of this book? It did indeed come as a revelation, because as some other reviewers have noted, K at various times in his talks and dialogues made passing reference to himself as knowing nothing about sexual feelings, etc. Was he a hypocrite--just another of the procession of "horny gurus" that we have seen pursuing starlets in the West? Was K, as one author suggested, a man who had somehow compartmentalized his own mind, so that the left hand did not know what the right had done?

It doesn't "wash" to say that the teachings and the man are separable, because as Kierkegaard noted, an assertion of fact by a liar is not the same thing when asserted by someone who intends to be truthful. Intention matters, and certainly no less in spiritual matters (!) than in the other, more "mundane" aspects of existence.

Forget Krishnamurti, but not this book: it is a useful, cautionary tale to all who undertake spiritual learning at the feet of any person.

Helpful but biased and incomplete.......2005-12-27

Actualy I would give this only 2-and-a-half-stars. I've read several K biographies, including this one and the response to this book by Mary Lutyens, "Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals." Like all the other biographies, this one, too, is helpful yet biased and highly incomplete. Sloss essentially gets almost all her facts (apparently) from her mother's version of the story, who obviously has a highly biased viewpoint. Sloss makes no attempts to get independent verification of most of her claims, although Lutyens and others admit to the basic fact that K *did* have a several-decade-long love (including sexual) relationship with Sloss's mother. But it's the details of that relationship that are in dispute. I'm very familiar with K's teaching on sexuality. He *never* claimed to be chaste nor taught *sexual* chastity, but rather a 'chastity" (purity) of mind. For him, sex was like any other desire--it's not a problem until we "make it a problem" such as by craving it, needing it, obsessing over it, demanding exclusivity with possessiveness, etc. So I see absolutely no inconsistency between his teachings and him having a sexual relationship with someone (or more than one person for that matter). As for the dispute between K and Sloss's father, Sloss's bias is blatant, such as she leaves out any explanation why her father insisted on bringing new lawsuits against K (such as a multi-million dollar defamation suit), she offers no explanation as to why her father was trying to keep control for himself over the recording of what were K's own teachings, and she doesn't offer any explanations for the allegations of embezzled funds which is why K and his new foundations were sueing Rajagopal to begin with (to recover the moneys). This book cannot be read without also reading Lutyen's book in response to this one "Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals" which shows, I think effectively, that Rajagopal had some serious emotional issues such as intense jealousy over K, which led to his obssessive attempts at controlling both the monies and the teachings themselves. So it's important for me to emphasize that when one looks at the best available evidence, from piecemealing together the facts from this book and others, that there seems to be *no* inconsistency yet that has been clearly shown between K's teachings and his life. Which is to say, looking at all the available evidence objectively as one can, it seems that K *did* live the teachings. *However*, unfortunately, one who wishes to understand K's life must do this sleuth work oneself. The biographies of K's "followers" like Lutyens and others are equally or even more biased as their biographies include almost no mention, let alone discussion, of the relationship between K and the Rajagopals, which clearly were some of the most major and important relationships K had during his lifetime. This would be like a biography of Lincoln that leaves out the civil war and it's impact on the man! It's inexcusable that anyone claiming to writee a biography of K would leave out all this major information shedding insight on Krisnahmurti and his life, especially when they themselves admit they knew much of this information at the time they wrote his biography! So the world still awaits a biography that gives a full, complete, detailed, honest and objective account of the entirety of K's life, rather than merely one person's limited recollection and perspective. Such a book would, I believe, clearly and unbiasedly show that a decades-long love affair and numerous lawsuits with Rajagopal in no way demonstrated a lack of K living his own teachings. I anxiously await such a biography.

Confused philosopher who thought he could teach the world.......2005-12-17

J Krishnamurthi was a free-lance philosopher, not an ordained monk or sannyasin with any sect that avowed celibacy.Therefore his many sexual adventures and long affair with Rosalind are mere human frailty and can be excused.The author is angry for his affair with her mother and sorry for her father.If J K could carry on the affair with Rosalind for nearly 20 years or more with the knowledge of her father [Rajagopal],then that is a triangular relationship accepted by them...J K could have been more open, but could not ,because he and his friends have created a myth about him and a large organisation.----J K had a sharp mind, some rational thinking, but totally confused with what one would call spiritual journey--Eastern or Western.In fact he was confused because he could not fully comprehend or practise Eastern methods, but was caught up in the methods to introduce his thinking into the western world..Theosophists shaped most of his early thinking.....To compare him or his teachings to that of Gautama Buddha , Sakyamuni, is foolish.JK had borrowed a few sayings and methods from Buddha...That any clever philosophy student can do after reading for a few months...He appealed to western people who were looking for some 'rational' arguments for self enquiry...For many Ramana Maharshi or Advaita vedanta would be too tough to follow or appreciate...If you want Dale Carnegie type of Advaita or Self enquiry teaching with lot of contradictions ---then JK provides the intellectual nourishment..this was the source of his success as a teacher...Sloss had done a great service, in the process of opening her heart and mind, to future thinkers and students ,especially of Eastern philosophy, given by half-baked gurus and philosophers from India.She wrote after the passing of J K which shows her restraint and respect for the man J K.

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MUST reading for those interested in K and his teachings
INCOMPLETE EXPLANATIONS
INCOMPLETE EXPLANATIONS
For the True Believer
Pretty Good

Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals
Mary Lutyens
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MUST reading for those interested in K and his teachings.......2005-12-27

This is a response to Sloss's book "Lives in the Shadows" where she details the decades-long love affair between her mother and K. Sloss also details the decades-long legal disputes between her father and K. Lutyens effectively, in my opinion, deals with both issues. After evaluating all the evidence, I'm convinced that there is no evidence *yet* that K lived a life in any way inconsistent with his teachings since he began his independent public teachings in the early 1930's. So those put in doubt or concern by Sloss's book need to read this book. That said, this book is woefully inadequate in flushing out the details of the love affair between K and Sloss' mother. I also find it deeply troubling that Lutyens of her own admission knew about all this information yet left it out of her very detailed biography of K. Clearly K's relationships with both Sloss's mother and father (the Rajagopals) were two of the most important relationships K ever had during his life, yet Lutyens (and other biographies by K's followers) make almost no mention, let alone discussion, of them. It would be like writing a biography of Lincoln yet leaving out the Civil War and the impact it had on Lincoln's life. I anxiously await a biography that gives the world a *full*, *detailed* and *objective* account of *all* the major events and relationships in K's life.

INCOMPLETE EXPLANATIONS.......2002-06-22

This books seems to me as pretty good at proving that R.Sloss is an unnacurate and biased accounter of K`s affair with Rosalind R. M.L. shows herself as an erudite on K`s life, who easily points out big mistakes in R.S`s book. Enough of them to untrust R.S as a reliable source. However, the book also keep unresolved some important questions on K's behavior in this affair. The abortion matter is apparently solved by suggesting that R.R. was never pregnant and that if so, she had to abort for the sake of her life. But, even though this may have been true, it still remains the fact that K`s reaction was on the basis that he believed she really was pregnant. And, in this respect, M.L. does not refute R.S account, which shows not only a careful and affectionate K but also a conveniently distant partenaire, who waits outside the abortion clinic for the result(feared of being involved in something illegal?). Also, even if we have to assume that the abortion was necessary, it is not less true that this did not lead K to stop sexual relations, despite the evidence that they may result in the need of breaking a human life process. For somebody who asked to leave drugs just by seeing the danger of them and expressed his devotion and sacredness vision about life, it is certainly extrange that he was not able to stop a relation that showed clearly as liable to demand repeated abortions (recall also the severe response given in Brookwod to sexual relationships between students and the dialogs on sex with them, at "begginings of learning"). Even more extrange is that he NEVER - and I have checked this on his complete works CD ROM - talked about abortion itself. Just in a few ocassions he used the word as a metaphora but he never discussed that especific matter (did he have scruples about it?). Before knowing about this affair, one may think that he never dealt with it as his position on it should be evidently derived from his radical defence of life and opposition to suicide. But, certainly, things are not so clear after this affair has been known.
Also, it is curious to see how K`s attitude towards his life evolves with time. In her previous biography, M.L says how she - and also Mary Z - are encouraged by K to write about his life and how was to live with him. He even suggests that people should make hundreds miles to talk to those who knew him. This approach changes with time conveniently to the one we hear today: what matters are the teachings, not the man. In my view, this puts K on the same level as most of the conventional espiritual leaders or Popes, who only are supposed to tranmit the truth when they talk about it but not in their day to day behaviour (by the way, the roman philosopher, Seneca, used to say his disciples: do what I say not what I do. This is a very old trick). The question is not to make K a perfect being but to see whether the teachings work on real life or not. He could make mistakes but the truth is suppose to reveal also through the way he faced them. The teachings may be like a beatiful architectural design, nice to see and talk about it, but impossible to translate into a real building. And one has a bit of this feeling when sees how so many people fought and even tried to kill (if we rely on K`s account on an attempt to kill him by R.R) for the property of these teachings. One feels that to live them did not matter at all but to have their property, as they proved to be an article with a profitable, loyal and wide market.
What is evident for me is that M.L. was unable to gather from K enough data on this affair. I think K did not try to hide it even though he did not help to put more light on it. It was his right, as a private and personal matter but, extrangely, it indicates a priority given to his image instead to the defence of the teachings (which - no doubt about it - will be damaged later or sooner by this issue). On the other hand, I do not share the views on K`s cheating by proyecting a false chastity image. Read his books and talks. Nobody can find an assesment supporting that view. As far as just this matter is concerned, I do not see any contradiction with the teachings.
Finally, I find no excuse to the fact that M.L. did not mention it in his K`s biography, even though she recognised she knew about it by this time (another "kind" suggestion not to mention it, like "the process" removal from her mother's book?). The fact is that she only wrote about it when she had to react to R.S`s book. Too late and too incomplete.

INCOMPLETE EXPLANATIONS.......2002-06-22

For the True Believer.......2000-11-05

A preposterous and disingenuous response to the well documented revelations found in Radha Sloss's shocking book "Lives in the Shadow". One immediately senses how hastily this book was assembled by noticing, for instance, that the 30 year period of relationship between Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals encompassing the years between 1930 and 1960 is disposed of in only 25 pages. And Lutyens, the most prominent of his biographers, by her own admission, confesses that by the time her final biographical volume was published in 1988, she knew about this affair but made no mention of it in her book. This is clearly inexcusable in a biographer.

Pretty Good.......2000-08-21

My opinion of this little book is tarnished by the fact that I haven't read "Lives in the Shadow", to which this is a reply. It should be mentioned that Mary Lutyens was a devotee of K when she wrote this book. She does not like Sloss's book at all and gives her impression of Sloss's inconsistencies. The RS book though is very long (over 300 hundred pages) and it is unclear how the Lutyen book could answer all the allegations in her tiny book Still, Lutyen's book is pretty good at giving some good explanations for K's actions, if that's what you're after. For example, it is quite clear that K didn't exactly say he was celibate or gave that impression personally. Certainly books like Years of Fullfillment give the impression K was celibate, but Lutyens didn't know of K's affair then. I actually agreed with Lutyens on this point, I don't find anything in K's teachings which say he is celibate, or that we should be celibate - and I've read a lot. The other allegations are that K sanctioned Rosalind's abortions. Birth control at that time wasn't what it is today, and it seems unclear what K's intentions were. I think only a fairly bitter person would suggest that K didn't want an heir, and would therefore suggest to kill the child because of that. Lutyens says that Rosalind had a medical condition that would cause her to die if she didn't have an abortion, so who really knows about that. In other cases, RS seems to go too far in her speculations on K. For example, that K faked the process to procure the attention of women. Or that K was always childish or dishonest. Or that K deliberately tried to cover up his affair. On this later point, I have some grave, grave doubts he ever did. I've asked on numerous occcasions for people to give me evidence of this, yet I haven't got any. Also, if RS and her circle know the truth about K, then why is it that it is only her book that make this allegation? Why aren't these "people" who apparently knew K so well in other books? It does seem that Rajagopal (a very, very strange person ... and that's not just going by Lutyen's account, it goes by most accounts of K biographers, often who are actually pretty understanding towards Raja and make excuses for him) felt K was not enlightened. Rosalind didn't think so either. Why not? Pupul wrote revealingly in her own biography how easy it was to get used to K, to take him for granted and not to see his "qualities". It's also doubtful K loved Rosalind as much as claimed. Lutyen's book deals with this in detail. K knew his "position", which was the World Teacher, and that came before other things. He also fell in love with a woman called Hellen Knothe. If you read Knothe's account, you will realise that while K was deeply in love with her, it was not a jealous obsessive love and that K was the one that had lost interest, not her. She saw in his eyes that it was over, and that was that. Yet it seems from many reports that Rosalind's character is in question. People were surprised how badly Rosalind treated K. Rosalind was wrote a letter to Rajagopal when he found a new love which congratulated him, but when Raja wanted a divorse she fought it. Rosalind even by her own admition was a hysterical, and why people place her word over K's seems odd to me. Overall, K and the Rajagopals will seem to confirm the beliefs of those on the "K side" or simply say to those who are not (a very vocal minority) how much his devotees want to defend him. Yet it seems that the truth exonerates Krishnamurti, as far as I see it. Again, I will have to read Lives in the Shadow to make a full assessment.

Lives in the Shadow With J. Krishnamurti

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Lives in the Shadow With J. Krishnamurti
Radha Sloss
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helpful advice for those of us who have a conflicted relationship with food

Wake-up Call

An "Aha" moment

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Runaway Eating: The 8-Point Plan to Conquer Adult Food and Weight Obsessions
Cynthia Bulik , and Nadine Taylor
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Release Date: 2004-12-23

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The first book to address a disturbing new trend: dangerous eating patterns in midlife women that can have serious health consequences.Struggling to cope with the stress of menopause, empty nest syndrome, caring for ailing parents, work overload, and the cultural emphasis on youth and beauty, more and more women find themselves eating compulsively to ease tension, manage anxiety, quell depression, and distract themselves from what's really eating them. Others obsessively follow strict diets or exercise excessively.In this groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., and dietitian Nadine Taylor team up to present a patient-tested 8-step program to help women regain a healthy relationship with food. Readers also will find:o A thorough explanation of the full spectrum of Runaway Eating behaviors, from occasional lapses into binge eating to restrictive dieting to compulsive exercisingo Alternative ways to alleviate anxiety and defuse depressiono Practical strategies for managing the menopausal symptoms that often lead to disordered eating

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helpful advice for those of us who have a conflicted relationship with food.......2006-01-26

An intelligent book- easy to read with a supportive tone, containing much needed information and guidelines for those of us who struggle with food issues.
As a counselor, I have been inspired to consider leading a support group with this book as part of the foundation.

Wake-up Call.......2005-10-14

If I didn't know better, I would think that the authors of this book had hidden cameras in my pantry (and in my subconscious). In just the first few pages, they perfectly described my over-eating episodes as if they'd been there with me while I devoured an entire bag of chocolate chips. And in the subsequent chapters they revealed the lies I've been telling myself in the back of my mind, helping me get honest with myself about my distorted view of my body, my eating, and how to find happiness. Although the book is clearly aimed at women in their mid-life (one of the 8 points in the plan is specific to menepause), I found most of the book applicable to me as a 30yo man who has fluctuated between over-eating and restricting my whole life. I feel like, for the first time in my life, a veil has been lifted that has revealed all the ridiculous lies I've been telling myself that keep me unhappy. I'm just starting out, trying to regain my ability to know when I'm really hungry (not tired, angry, bored, or depressed), and when I'm full (rather than eating until I'm sick). I already find I'm eating more than I convinced myself I should eat (though surely less than I was eating, since I'm not gorging on cookies anymore). I also have more energy and find myself able to deal with work and home with a smile, rather than succumbing to tension. If you've ever told yourself that your happiness is dependant on losing a few more pounds, or you've ever started eating a cake by taking a small slice, then rationalized another small slice, then another, and another and another, until the cake is nearly gone -- this book will be a kind, gentle wake-up call and help you take rational steps toward a healthy relationship with food.

An "Aha" moment.......2005-09-24

This book really turned on a light bulb for me. It clearly outlines what are called "subclinical" eating disorders. It also helped me to realize that my reaction to dieting was normal! What a relief to know that it's not just me. Included in the book are some written exercises to help you figure out what triggers your "runaway eating" episodes. It also addresses compulsive exercise, another very common problem.

I have been greatly encouraged to leave my dieting mentality behind. It may seem overly dramatic to say it was ruining my life, but it was! And those of you whose lives are driven by thoughts of what, when, and how much you will eat, and how long you must exercise know what I mean. You can experience freedom. It's scary, but you can! The book teaches you how to learn to listen to your body, and reestablish your hunger-feeding mechanism. Very helpful information. I put away my scale, but I can tell you that the fit of my clothes has not really changed since I started working in this book. I have not lost weight, but amazingly, I have been much more relaxed with food (and life) and I haven't piled on weight. I really think that once I get this down and some of the cravings for junk out of my system, that my weight will probably go down a little, though I am probably never going to be a size 6. I am also experiencing less dissatisfaction with my body-a miracle!

I cannot give all the credit to this book, as I have read others along the way that have emphasized my freedom in Christ that goes hand in hand with obedience.

Read This Book.......2005-08-05

I have had food 'issues' for years. I have read books on eating disorders but none of them really described me. This book described all of my behaviors and opened my eyes to the motivations behind them. I am working on using the methods suggested in the book.

a psychologist loves this book!.......2005-01-27

As a psychologist, I love this book! The perfect title for a great book on our culture's obsession with food and appearance. Even though it addresses eating disorders in menopausal women, two of my teenage patients have told me they feel it describes them in details not found in other books. The concrete solutions offered have helped them to change their thinking. They feel understood by the compassionate tone of the authors. I like the stress reduction techniques and their understanding of how thoughts lead to behaviors. Change your thoughts, change your behavior. This book can clearly help to heal.

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Cooking With the Horse & Buggy People
Marvin Wengerd
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Very disappointed.......2005-01-20

I recently purchased this cookbook on a visit home, and I am very disappointed. The Amish/Mennonite women are wonderful cooks, but this book is a terrible representation of their cooking. The recipes in this book are heavily dependent on Jello, instant pudding, canned pie filling, canned soup, cake mixes, and Velveeta. Furtermore, many recipes give no pan size, cooking time, or yield.

The Amish Cook:Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family and Cooking from Quilt Country: Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens are wonderful. Buy them instead

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Marvin Wengerd
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