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Amish Cookstoves

Cookstove Community — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 04:40:02 +0000

When you think of the Amish, you probably imagine their plain clothing, traditional head coverings, long beards, and a simple life without television or modern technology. It's a unique lifestyle that has become even more striking with the increasingly rapid pace of cultural trends over the past several decades, and much media attention has been devoted to the Amish people in recent years. On the surface, their lives seem entirely at odds with the ones that most of us live on a day to day basis, but the reality is that we all share some common ground. Some of that ground, in fact, is found in cookstoves.

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Foodways in 1910

Cookstove Community — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:23:31 +0000

This article, written by the Montana Heritage Project, details the eating and cooking habits in early American Society. It’s a fascinating look into how stoves came into existence, and offers insight into why many people still prefer to use cookstoves. When visiting cultures that are new to us, a close look at how people eat...

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The History Of The Montana Energy Queen Cookstove

Cookstove Community — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:51:25 +0000

About 1997 or so a fella from Michigan named Dennis Bontrager. Dennis and his wife Viola had left the Amish in Michigan looking for religious liberty and landed in Libby Montana at an Amish community that was experiencing a move of the HOLY SPIRIT. Being an industrious fella with a welder and having some experience building cookstoves back east (the founder of kitchen Queen is Dennis's uncle) he set about building cookstoves for the Amish communities out west.

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