The Amish Cook from Oasis Newsfeatures

Want to see the inside of an Amish school-house like this one? Take advantage of the rare opportunity and subscribe to AmishCookTV! See details on how to subscribe below:

 Sign up for AmishCookTV and get a free ebook copy of The Original Amish Cook Cookbook. This is the classic, our first cookbook, 192 pages of recipes, stories, and Amish artwork.  Written by the original Amish Cook, Elizabeth Coblentz and Kevin Williams.

Videos are a popular part of this site and allow people to "experience" aspects of Amish culture in a way words and still pictures can't capture. We have an exciting package of educational, insightful, and hopefully fun "video tours" available this year (August 2009 - June 2010). Amish and Mennonites are generally familiar with my work, and they trust me to present their environment in an educational and respectful way.  Because of this, I’m often given photographic access to areas that many other journalists don’t get.  Most of the videos are 5 – 7 minutes in length, so they’re pretty "watchable", although some may be a bit longer.

Following are some of the planned videos:

Visit to an Amish home the evening prior to church services being held,Visit inside an Old Order Amish one-room schoolhouse, Tour of an Amish Buggy Shop, Visit to a Harness Shop, Visit to a Swartzentruber Amish basket shop, video of an Amish wedding (the cakes, gifts, set-up), meal-time at Lovina's, Lovina's quilt collection, and much more.  A visit to a Hutterite colony is one I'd like to include, but that is not set yet. Also part of the video package:  

COOKING DEMONSTRATION: Amish Wedding Pastries:  In some communities these are known as “knee patches”, in others they are called “nothings.”  Watch a cooking demonstration of these unique pastries being prepared.

AMISH IN THE NEWS: a 15 minute weekly newscast anchored by Kevin Williams covering all the latest news in Amish-Mennonite country.  This debuts in September and will be tried on an experimental basis.  If the response is good, it'll be weekly, if not, monthly.

Allow 24 hours to receive your first video after subscribing.  Your first video will be the Amish church video.  To subscribe to AmishCookTV and begin receiving the videos, simply click the "DONATE" button to the right under the photo of the coffee mug (some people may have to scroll down to find this button) and enter the amount you wish to pay to subscribe to AmishCookTV. The economy is horrible now so I'm not going to give this year-long video package a price for the next month.  You pay what you can afford and what you think AmishCookTV is worth for the entire year and you'll begin receiving the videos by email within 24 hours.  The name your own price  for the year-long pass will stay in effect until Sept. 30.  Effective Oct. 1 the price will be $50 for a year-long pass.

People with slow dial-up connections that can't watch video very well online, these videos will be made available to you via snail mail on DVD. Simply request that option when you sign up.

People who order the 1 year package on DVD will receive a "Year in Review" newscast instead of weekly installments of Amish in the News.  The DVD will be mailed in June at the end of the season.

To enroll by snail mail send checks to: Oasis Newsfeatures, PO BOX 2144, Middletown, Ohio 45042