Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community: El Cerrito, New Mexico.Olen Leonard , C. P. LoomisCulture of a Contemporary Rural Community: Sublette, Kansas.Earl H. BellCulture of a Contemporary Rural Community: Landaff, New Hampshire.Kenneth MacLeish , Kimball YoungCulture of a Contemporary Rural Community: The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.Walter M. KollmorgenCulture of a Contemporary Rural Community: Irwin, Iowa.Edward O. Moe , Carl C. TaylorCulture of a Contemporary Rural Community: Harmony, Georgia.Waller Wynne

This article deals with the creation of a new type of high-end Pennsylvania Dutch food tourism as packaged by Marjorie Hendricks (1897––1978) in her tastefully furnished Water Gate Inn which operated in Washington, DC from 1942 to 1966. Rather than draw on the Old Order Amish then emerging as tourism themes in places like Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Hendricks and her menu developer, Flora G. Orr (1893––1953) went back to original sources with the idea of showcasing some of the classic dishes for which Pennsylvania Dutch cooking was once well known. This included various pork-and-saurkraut recipes, the layered dishes called Gumbis (shredded cabbage with layers of fruit and/or meat), and a number of recipes invented by Hendricks but inspired by old, traditional preparation techniques. While Hendrick's restaurant won national acclaim for its high-quality fare and interior decorations composed of real Pennsylvania Dutch antiques, it had little effect on the menus then developing in Pennsylvania by the tourism industry, menus which were largely constructed around an inaccurate interpretation of both Amish foods and foodways and Pennsylvania Dutch culture in general.

Download Full-text

Review of Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America by David J. Walbert:Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America

Agricultural History ◽

10.1525/ah.2005.79.3.385 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 79 (3) ◽

pp. 385-386

Author(s):

Royden Loewen

Keyword(s):

Rural America ◽

Old Order Amish ◽

Lancaster County ◽

Old Order

Download Full-text

Molecular epidemiology ofStaphyloccocus aureuscolonization in the Old Order of Amish of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, USA

Epidemiology and Infection ◽

10.1017/s0950268813002872 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 142 (8) ◽

pp. 1722-1726 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M.-C. ROGHMANN ◽

N. LONGINAKER ◽

L. CROFT ◽

J. K. JOHNSON ◽

A. D. LYDECKER ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Molecular Epidemiology ◽

Prospective Observational Study ◽

Close Contact ◽

Same Sex ◽

Community Based ◽

Old Order Amish ◽

Lancaster County ◽

Old Order ◽

Study Population ◽

Homogenous Population

SUMMARYTransmission ofStaphylococcus aureuscolonization in community-based populations is not well understood. We sought to describe the molecular epidemiology ofS. aureuscolonization in the Old Order Amish. The study was a prospective, observational study of healthy adults and their same-sex siblings who were cultured from the anterior nares twice.S. aureusisolates were characterized usingspatyping. Overall, 40% (159/398) of the study population was colonized withS. aureus. There were 84spatypes with the most abundantspatypes being t012 (13%) and t021 (7%). There was no clustering ofspatypes within sibling groups; however, there was clustering within households. There were 111S. aureus-colonized participant pairs living within the same household. Of these, 47% had concordantspatypes. The diversity ofspatypes across a relatively isolated, genetically homogenous population with a similar lifestyle is striking. Taken together this suggests thatS. aureustransmission is a local phenomenon limited to very close contact.

Download Full-text