Wonderful stories written by great authors! I really enjoyed these books, especially because they interwove with each other.
Fern grows healing herbs and helps out the Amish with minor injuries. Abram is home with his brothers and sister and they get into all kinds of scrapes. Over time Fern and Abram become more than friends.
Hannah runs her parents bed and breakfast. When a kind stranger, Stephen comes to stay, Hannah grows curious about his past. Stephen must forgive himself before he can open his heart to Hannah.
Eve has to go live at her parents house because a tree falls on her home. Eve and her mother have never really gotten along and her mother criticizes the way Eve is raising her children. Eve starts to remember good memories and then she finds out some secrets that her mom has been hiding. They realize that they can truly have a great relationship. ( )

The three stories in this book are loosely connected, taking place in the same Amish community, but differing in their tone, as each tale is penned by a different author. Though all have likeable and believable characters, and the required more or less happy conclusion, readers will probably like one story more than the others. One story deals with finding love conveniently next door, another deals with the problems that occur when a father has a stroke, and the last with family relations and an illness. Interesting stories, just not wonderful. ( )

Three sweet stories to nourish your soul - includes 45 old order Amish recipes.

The Clipston story spoke to me the most - as it would any reader who has had a family member suffer a stroke, and the aftermath. The other stories were good - not saying they weren't - but this one stood out for me. ( )

An Amish Kitchen is three mini novellas. Each is a separate story, but the other characters are briefly mentioned in each story. There is also a reader's guide & lots of Amish recipes at the end of the book which would be lots of fun to try - if I were a better cook!

The first story is about Fern, an Amish healer, the second is about Hannah, who runs her family's bed and breakfast while taking care of aging parents, and the third, the longest one in the book, is about Eve and her extended family.

I think I liked the first story the best - I could relate to Fern a lot, I liked the pacing of the story, & I liked how it ended. I also liked the story about Hannah, but I didn't like the pacing of the story as much & I felt the ending was cut very, very short - so much so, that the ending actually ruined the whole story for me, and if I had to rate just the middle story, I'd only give it two stars. I felt like I was being teased, and I didn't feel like I read the whole tale. Without giving anything away, I also really felt like the conflict in the story was solved way too quickly & not very realistically.

The last story, about Eve's family, was a very emotional one for me. Her mother suffer's from Parkinson's disease, which in a lot of ways is similar to Alzheimer's, which runs in my family. I was brought to tears more than once by certain parts, and I also laughed out loud at some of the parts!



I received this book to read & review through the book sneeze program for free. ( )